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NOTE: All times are Eastern Time unless otherwise noted.

ETCeteras listings are based on information sent to WholeNote in advance by event presenters. Due to circumstances resulting from COVID-19 and restrictions imposed by the Province of Ontario and the City of Toronto, some events may subsequently have been cancelled or postponed. Please visit presenters' websites or contact them directly for updated information. Thank you for your understanding and stay safe!  

DAILY LISTINGS FOR OCTOBER

Oct 16-18: Music Gallery. X Avant XV: Transmissions. Curated by Pratishtha Kohli and Olivia Shortt. All events FREE to stream. All shows will be available to stream online and will be a mix of on and off-site concerts produced by the Music Gallery. Further information available here.

Oct 16 12 noon: Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra. SPOGreatMusic Podcast: Episode 3 - Socially Distanced: Music for a Solo Instrument: J.S. Bach Plus. Featuring interviews with special guests. Host: Dr. Daniel Mehdizadeh. Find links and further information here.

Oct 16. Tafelmusik. Baroque for Baby. A kid-friendly playlist curated by violinist and mother of two, Cristina Zacharias. Selections from renowned Tafelmusik recordings include music by Telemann, Purcell, Lully, Vivaldi, Handel, Monteverdi, Rameau, Merula, Sweelink, and Marais. Zacharias’s choices balance enlivening, energetic music that encourages children to move and dance with calming, quieter pieces for bedtime. More information available here.

Oct 17 7:00-8:00: FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre. Gord's Legacy: A Free Virtual Experience to Honour Gord Downie. For more Information, visit here.

Oct 17 7:00: Guitar Society of Toronto. Online Recital: Austin Wahl. Registration is required in advance here. A suggested donation of $20 can be made during registration.

Oct 17 7:00: New Adventures in Sound Art/Charles Street Video. Endosymbiosis: Live Electronic Music Performance with Liquid Light Imagery by Robert Fantinatto. A video and improvised electronic music performance which utilizes a variation on the technique of Liquid Light by replacing the overhead projector with a 4K video camera. The improvised music performed by Fantinatto uses a customized modular synthesizer along with slowed-down water sounds. The performance will be live-streamed over YouTube with Q&A discussion taking place afterwards on the Whereby platform. Online Location issued after Advance Registration here.

Oct 17 8:00: Royal Conservatory of Music. The Resounding Concert. A FREE online event. This celebration of music in support of Koerner Hall and The Royal Conservatory of Music will include performances by Chinese superstar pianist Lang Lang, celebrated American-Canadian soprano Sondra Radvanovsky, young Canadian pianist and an alumnus of the Conservatory’s Glenn Gould School Jan Lisiecki, Indian tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain in an exclusive improvised jam session with the world’s reigning rhythm section, Canadian concert violinist and violist James Ehnes, Cuban-Canadian singer-songwriter Alex Cuba, and award-winning British violinist Daniel Hope. The evening will also include appearances by Hollywood star Meryl Streep and Buffy Sainte-Marie, the legendary Cree singer-songwriter who has been a trailblazer, a disruptor of the status quo, as well as a recipient of an Honorary Fellowship from The Royal Conservatory. The livestream is available here.

Oct 18 2:00: TD Niagara Jazz Festival. LIVEstream.LOVE.WORLD Series #09 with Juneyt. Interested but can't attend? ALL of our livestreamed performances are available at our Facebook page and our YouTube channel. Enjoy this performance with our compliments. Donations in support of our Festival and our artists are gratefully accepted here. See our full lineup here.

Oct 18 7:00: Canzona Chamber Players. Sean Rice & Anna Petersen, Clarinet / Oboe Duo. See the concert here. In lieu of a concert ticket, donations to the St. Michael’s Hospital Foundation COVID-19 Courage Fund, in Memory of Elizabeth Krehm, can be made here.

UPDATED!! Oct 18 8:00: New Music Concerts. Virtually Yours: Anima. Sanya Eng, harp; Ryan Scott, percussion. 7:15 Pre-Concert Chat. Broadcast free online from Koerner Hall. To watch Anima at home this Sunday, please follow one of the following links: Facebook, YouTube or Vimeo.

NEW!! Oct 19 12:15: Music Mondays. Mid-Day Sound Painting. Featuring the original music of Karl Silveira, interpreted by some of Toronto’s most talented musicians. Karl draws inspiration for his compositions from his fascination with visual art. Karl’s music is written with the intention of being open to interpretation, much in the same way a painting would be viewed in an art gallery. He draws musical influence from Thelonious Monk, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Wayne Shorter and Maurice Ravel. The stream and full program notes will be available here.

Oct 22 8:00: Tafelmusik. Passions of the Soul. A livestreamed event curated and directed by Elisa Citterio. Bliss, grief, delight: experience a kaleidoscope of emotions with 18th-century music that will open your heart and mind. This concert is a microcosm of our season theme, “Passions of the Soul.” Works featured include Lalande’s Chaconne (inspired by the magnificent fountains of Versailles), Locatelli’s Sinfonia Funebre, and Telemann’s suite La Bourse, an irreverent depiction of the roller-coaster of emotions experienced by investors in the stock market. Single ticket purchasers will be able to re-access the concert for a full 24 hours after the original broadcast time. You can revisit your ticket link, contained in your confirmation email, to watch until October 23, 2020 at 7:59pm. $30 + service fees. Box Office: 1-833-964-6337. Visit our website here.

Oct 23 12 noon: Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra. SPO Music Performance S41E02. New music performances by members and friends of the SPO. Full performance details and links can be found here. Today's theme: Socially Distanced: Music for a Solo Instrument, J.S. Bach Plus.

Oct 23 7:00: TD Niagara Jazz Festival. LIVEstream.LOVE.JAZZ Series #43 with Jay Reed. Interested but can't attend? ALL of our livestreamed performances are available at our Facebook page and our YouTube channel. Enjoy this performance with our compliments. Donations in support of our Festival and our artists are gratefully accepted here. See our full lineup here.

Oct 23 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony. KWS Goes Online: Schubert and the Swedish Mozart. Andrei Feher, conductor. Kraus: Symphony in c; Schubert: Symphony No .5 in B-flat. Kraus has often been referred to as “the Swedish Mozart,” and while a talented composer in his own right, is overshadowed in popular memory by his famous contemporary. His Symphony in C is stormy and dramatic, full of turbulent passion. Schubert was infatuated with Mozart, but in contrast to Kraus’s symphony, his Symphony No. 5 is light and joyfully elegant. Purchase tickets here.

Oct 24 7:00: New Adventures in Sound Art and Charles Street Video. Adeva (version000_01): Electronic Music and Video Performance by Debashis Sinha. Debashis Sinha’s explorations of how his Bengali heritage can manifest through the toolset of contemporary electronic music continues with this livestream performance. The text and sound world of the Vedas (Hindu scriptures) is subjected to machine learning algorithms and processes to create content that lies just beyond the reach of human comprehension — a piecing together of half-understood and half-perceived bits of wisdom that is reconstructed by Sinha, and the listener in the moment of performance. Livestreamed on YouTube with Q&A discussion taking place afterwards on the Whereby platform. It is a co-presentation of New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) and Charles Street Video. Online location issued after Advance Registration here.

NEW!! Oct 24 7:00: Sultans of String. Interactive ZOOM Concert: Yalla Yalla! Featuring all the songs from our second JUNO Award-nominated 2009 album, including a lot of our favourites. Tune in 15 minutes early to chat with our friends. And make sure you have speakers plugged in if you have them! We have kept the ticket price very low as we know that a lot of our friends are out of work. If that is still a barrier for you then just shoot me an email and I will provide you a comp, no questions asked, while tickets remain. The show will last about an hour, including a talk-back portion, so bring your burning questions. Thanks and look forward to seeing you all soon! Purchase tickets here.

NEW!! Oct 24 7:15: Toronto City Opera. The Telephone / La voix humaine. Livestream double bill includes Gian Carlo Menotti’s The Telephone with Nicole Dubinsky as Lucy England and Johnathon Kirby as Ben Upthegrove followed by Francis Poulenc’s La voix humaine with Rachel Krehm singing the role of Elle. Jennifer Tung, artistic director. Both operas deal with the ecstasies and agonies of human love, yearning for expression through the ever present third party of technology — our phones. Access to the livestream is by ticket ($30) and will be available for a two-week period until November 7th. Visit here for tickets or call 416-578-4102.

NEW!! Oct 24 8:00: Tapestry Opera. Improvisation as Life. Performers include Robi Botos, jazz piano (on Tapestry’s Bösendorfer Imperial Grand) and Moses Salihou, Art Battle Canada Painter in live improvised collaboration with Art Battle Canada visual artist Moses Salihou. Watch this collaboration free here.

Oct 24 7:30: Loose Tea Music Theatre. Dead Reckoning. A new musical adapted for film with book and lyrics by Lezlie Wade and composed by Scott Christian. With Laura Larson, Kelsey Falconer, Alicia Barban,  Aisha Jarvis, Sara Shanazarian. Online YouTube premiere. No tickets required. For information contact Alaina Viau at aviau@looseteamusictheatre.

Oct 25 2:00: TD Markham Jazz Festival. Ready. Set. Connect. Concert #2. Spy Jazz with June Garber and Irene Torres, hosted by Jaymz Bee and featuring an exceptional band — Eric St. Laurent (guitars) George Koller (basses), Great Bob Scott (drums and percussion), Attila Fias (keyboards) and Alison Young (saxes). Tune in here prior to each concert.

Oct. 26 (available until Nov 1). Toronto Symphony Orchestra. On Demand Series: The Ultimate Guide to Eating Halloween Candy. Sink your sweet tooth into a candy-centred hour of musical mayhem and Halloween hilarity, as TSO Principal Education Conductor & Community Am-BOO!-ssador Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser attempts to work late on All Hallow’s Eve to program the perfect Young People’s Concert—only to be interrupted by spooks, sprites, and serious sugar cravings! Featuring favourites by Bach, Tchaikovsky, and Mussorgsky, alongside some newer symphonic confections, Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser, conductor. Purchase all eight concerts as a package for $120, pick three performances for $51, or select single programs for $20 (or $40 for Give One, Get One). Discounts are available to TSO subscribers and TSOUNDCHECK members. Each program will be available for unlimited viewing after its release for seven days. Tickets go on sale on Oct 14 at 11:00am. Go to TSO.CA/OnDemand or call Patron Services at 416.598.3375 (Mon–Fri, 9:00am–5:00pm). 

Oct 26 12:15: Music Mondays. Folk & Song. Works by Brahms, Rachmaninoff, Dvořák, Gershwin and others. Beth Silver, cello; Jenna Richards, piano. Visit here.  

Oct 26 7:30: Art of Time Ensemble / Toronto International Festival of Authors. The Poem/The Song. Available online until Thursday, October 29th, 7:30pm. The Poem/The Song presents music inspired by poetry in a variety of contrasting musical settings. Highlights include two-time Booker Prize-winning author Margaret Atwood reading her poem Thriller Suite accompanied by an original musical composition from Canadian composer Dan Parr, Franz Liszt's musical impression of Petrarch's Sonnets, music from the worldwide smash-hit Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats, which was inspired by the poetry of T.S. Eliot, a fantastical setting of Walt Whitman by composer George Crumb and songs by Leonard Cohen. Performers include singers Thom Allison, Gregory Hoskins and Carla Huhtanen. RSVP here.

UPDATE!! Oct 28 7:00 Opera Atelier. Something Rich and Strange. A fully-staged new creation featuring theatre music that explores the realms of dreams, visions and the supernatural. Featuring soprano Measha Brueggergosman, tenor Colin Ainsworth, and more. With Artists of Atelier Ballet and musicians from Tafelmusik led by Music Director Elisa Citterio. Music by Handel, Purcell and Lully. NOTE: The live component of this performance has been cancelled. However, the performance is being recorded for future livestreaming.

Oct 29 8:00: New Music Concerts. Virtually Yours: Cello Masterworks. David Hetherington, cello. Link to be provided at a future date.

Oct 30 12 noon: Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra. SPOGreatMusic Podcast S41E04 - Beethoven: The Man and His Chamber Music - Part 1. Featuring interviews with special guests. Host: Dr. Daniel Mehdizadeh. Find links and further information here.

Oct 30 6:30: SKINNAMARINK with Sharon and Randi, Back by Popular Demand! A live, interactive, virtual Halloween Costume Party Singalong. Visit the Skinnamarink with Sharon and Randi Home Routes page here. $15 plus tax. Families of three or more require two tickets. To buy tickets, go here.

Oct 30 8:00: The Piano Lunaire. Lunaire Live IV: Blue Moon Gala. Two-piano recital celebrating the rare Blue Moon. Streamed live from Toronto in collaboration with Yamaha Canada. Stephen Runge & Adam Sherkin, pianos. Adams: Hallelujah Junction; Sherkin: Ink from the Shield (2020 world premiere); Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances. $20 suggested donation. For more information, visit here.

CONTINUING EVENTS

Arts@Home. A vibrant hub connecting Torontonians to arts and culture. Designed to strengthen personal and societal resilience through the arts. Visit here to learn more about this exciting collaborative initiative.

Kevin Barrett. Live from Lockdown. Kevin Barrett does a live-streamed set of solo guitar tunes, coming directly from lockdown in his studio in Kensington Market, Toronto. Tune in to Kevin's Facebook page on Friday here. If you can't join live, the video will be available afterwards on Kevin's page with each week's episode archived on his YouTube channel here.

Classical Jukebox Founded as a response to the days of COVID-19 social separation, this site is designed to provide you the ability to sing and perform your favorite classical pieces from the comfort of your own home, with accompaniments by organ and piano accompanist, Matthew Larkin. In addition, Classical Jukebox offers another service - assisting with the creation of Virtual Choirs and virtual choir videos for those missing that collaborative and artistic outlet in their lives. Further information can be found here.

Esprit Orchestra. Filmbites. The first series of Filmbites clips are from Larry Weinstein's 1989 film For the Whales, in which writers, musicians, and artists celebrate the majestic whale. The film explores the theme of preserving our environment through artistic and musical meditations. Watch this short introductory video with composer Alexina Louie by clicking here, then click here to watch the film.

New Music Concerts. Sonic Grace: An NMC Audio Diary. Listen to David Hetherington perform Carter's Figment recorded live with New Music Concerts at the Music Gallery on Dec. 18, 2007, by clicking here.

Ottawa Chamberfest. Chamber Chats: At Home / Chez vous. Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2pm. Hosted by celebrated broadcaster/writer Eric Friesen. Interactive episodes combine chat with pre-recorded and live performances and feature guest artists and lecturers from all over the world. For information: 613-234-8008. Visit the website here.

Recollectiv: Currently holding on-line meetings. A unique musical group made up of people affected by memory challenges caused by illness (such as dementia) or brain injury (stroke, PTSD, etc.) and their care partners. Volunteers of all ages also form part of the band, making this a positive intergenerational experience for all. Participation is free with pre-registration. Contact info@recollectiv.ca for meeting times, information and registration.

Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts. a•P•art {of} performance series, every Thursday at 7:30pm here.

PODCASTS

Oct 27: Canadian Opera Company. Key Change: A COC Podcast. A fresh take on today's opera issues. Co-hosted by classical singer and culture critic Robyn Grant-Moran (a member of the COC’s Indigenous Circle of Artists) alongside COC Director/Dramaturg-in-Residence Julie McIsaac, the first season of bi-weekly episodes explores the operagoing experience from a variety of perspectives, with special guests from the opera field and beyond. This first episode features COC Music Director Johannes Debus, acclaimed American soprano Angel Blue, Ensemble Studio soprano Midori Marsh, and Canadian visual artist Shary Boyle recounting their first time at the opera — and what hooked them. New episodes air every other week. Admission is free and episodes will be available here or wherever you get your podcasts.

PREVIOUSLY RECORDED

NEW!! Esprit Orchestra. Filmbites Clip #3: Excerpt from Ned Rorem’s String Symphony--Nocturne and Scherzo, as performed by Esprit Orchestra in Larry Weinstein's 1989 film For the Whales. The film explores the theme of preserving our environment through artistic and musical meditations in celebration of the majestic whale. Click here to watch.

NEW!! Esprit Orchestra. Soundbites. The latest Soundbite in our series is an excerpt from the world premiere performance of Christopher Thornborrow's Trompe L'œil, conducted by Alex Pauk and performed by Esprit Orchestra in Koerner Hall on March 24, 2019. Visit here to watch this performance. Visit here to watch a Soundbites Insight related to this event.

Kingston Symphony. Finale of Beethoven’s Third Symphony (Eroica). Forty members of the orchestra perform the finale of the Eroica, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 while in isolation in their homes. To view the virtual performance, please click here. For more information on the Kingston Symphony, please visit here.

Koerner Hall. Concerts from Home.There are more than 25 classical, jazz, and roots music concerts currently available online. Check out the available items here.

Orchestre Métropolitain. Live stream of Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 1-8. On the websites of Orchestre Métropolitain and Bourgie Hall over the course of the summer of 2020. Visit here and here.

TD Toronto Jazz Festival. Online Premiere. Measha Brueggergosman, soprano; Lennie Gallant, guitar. The internationally acclaimed opera singer and concert artist co-wrote "Champions" with Lennie Gallant. The concert is available here.

Toronto Consort. Explorer: Discovering the World of Early Music. Explorer is a blog for the curious; a place of learning, sharing, and community. This all-new offering will present an assortment of curated content in a range of formats, like original short- or long-form articles, original video and audio recordings, and educational content on relevant topics relating to Early Music, history, and world music, as they relate our beloved repertoire. Visit here for further information.

Toronto Operetta Theatre. An archival video of Toronto Operetta Theatre's production of Jacinto Guerrero's Los Gavilanes (The Sparrow Hawks) performed in April 2016 at the Jane Mallett Theatre, St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, Toronto. Features Guillermo Silva-Marin and some of Canada's most amazing voices to dazzle your ears and eyes. Watch scenes here.

VOICEBOX/Opera in Concert. Archival Video Project: Fierabras by Franz Schubert. Schubert’s opera had its Canadian premiere in 2019. If you missed our full production, please take a look at our gift to you with this video of excerpts featuring an amazing cast under the masterful conducting of Kevin Mallon and the Aradia Ensemble. It is a rare opera at its highest degree of excellence in performance. In the midst of wars between the Frankish Christians and Spanish Moors of the late 700s, conflicts are brought to an end with the intercession of a younger generation, where love conquers all. See the video here.

MASTER CLASSES

Nov 22. ORMTA Central Toronto Branch. Online Composition Master Class. Submission deadline: Nov 13 @ 11:59pm. Information at 416-485-6562. $40. In celebration of Canada Music Week (Nov 22-28), ORMTA Central Toronto Branch is holding a Composition Master Class with composer clinician Christopher Norton. In this online composition master class, Connections and MicroJazz composer Christopher Norton will help refine new works by first-time and seasoned composers. Participants will submit scores and recordings of their works for Mr. Norton to review. He will send feedback in some combination of written comments, video response, and score annotations, highlighting strengths, giving suggestions for next steps, and perhaps suggesting related works for score study and listening. Contact Avila.Lotoski@hotmail.com for submission information.

NOTE: All times are Eastern Time unless otherwise noted.

DAILY LISTINGS FOR OCTOBER

Oct 01-18: Music Gallery. X Avant XV: Transmissions. Curated by Pratishtha Kohli and Olivia Shortt. All events FREE to stream. All shows will be available to stream online and will be a mix of on and off-site concerts produced by the Music Gallery; Still located at 918 Bathurst Centre for Culture, Arts, Media and Education. Further information available here.

Oct 09 12:00 noon: Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra. SPOGreatMusic Performance S41E01. New music performances by members and friends of the SPO. Full performance details available here.

Oct 09 7:00: TD Niagara Jazz Festival. LIVEstream.LOVE.JAZZ Series #41 with Bill Mays. Interested but can't attend? ALL our livestreamed performances are available at our Facebook page and our YouTube channel. Enjoy this performance with our compliments. Donations in support of our Festival and our artists are gratefully accepted here. See our full LIVEstream.LOVE.WORLD.Series Lineup here.

Oct 09 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony. KWS Goes Online: Fly Me to the Moon - Sinatra and Beyond. Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser, conductor; Michael Vanhevel, vocalist. In a tribute to the world’s greatest crooners, singer Michael Vanhevel and the KWS take you on a sentimental journey of crooner classics including songs like Fly Me to the Moon, Unforgettable, The Way You Look Tonight and so many more. Purchase tickets here.

Oct 10 8:00: Toronto Mendelssohn Choir. Kannamma: A Concert of Thanksgiving. From Bach to the Beatles, from visual arts to dance to drumming to singing this concert of thanksgiving brings together an amazing group of artists in a program of choral music and more that evocatively expresses gratitude. TMC Associate Conductor Simon Rivard and Guest Curator Suba Sankaran have put together a diverse program that brings together songs of thanks, gratitude and love, spanning several centuries, multiple genres and disciplines that cross cultures. Works will include European classical to jazz to pop to South Indian Karnatak music, to refreshing original compositions, complemented by visual arts and dance performance. Program is free to view but please consider a donation in support of our online programming during the pandemic. Enjoy the concert here.

Oct 11 3:00: Danny Michel. Live From Lockdown: Thanksgiving Weekend Show. Tickets are $15. Danny has set aside 25 tickets for those who are not in a position to purchase a ticket but would like to be a part of this event. If that's you, then email info@dannymichel.com with the subject "Guestlist Oct 11". No explanations necessary and no questions asked. Visit here to buy tickets.

NEW!! Oct 11 7:30: CAMMAC. In Heaven It Is Always Autumn. This exclusive Thanksgiving concert will be performed by The Gesualdo Six, a vocal ensemble comprised of some of the UK’s finest young consort singers, directed by Owain Park. For information visit here.

NEW!! Oct 12 12:15: Music Mondays. Duo Cavatine: Parfums de Paris. From Couperin to Poulenc, Duo Cavatine (Noémie Raymond-Friset, cello and Michel-Alexandre Broekaert, piano) present a program which combines pieces that are central to their collaboration including new musical discoveries and pieces from the standard repertoire bringing together some of the most hauntingly beautiful and innovative French musical masterpieces. The music ranges from quirky humor to celestial atmosphere and covers more than 400 years of French musical tradition. Visit here to enjoy this concert.

Oct 16 12 noon: Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra. SPOGreatMusic Podcast: Episode 3 - Socially Distanced: Music for a Solo Instrument: J.S. Bach Plus.. Featuring interviews with special guests. Host: Dr. Daniel Mehdizadeh. Find links and further information at our website here.

Oct 16. Tafelmusik. Baroque for Baby. A kid-friendly playlist curated by violinist and mother of two, Cristina Zacharias. Selections from renowned Tafelmusik recordings include music by Telemann, Purcell, Lully, Vivaldi, Handel, Monteverdi, Rameau, Merula, Sweelink, and Marais. Zacharias’s choices balance enlivening, energetic music that encourages children to move and dance with calming, quieter pieces for bedtime. More information is available here.

Oct 17 7:00-8:00: FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre. Gord's Legacy: A Free Virtual Experience to Honour Gord Downie. FREE. For more Information, visit here.

Oct 17 7:00: Guitar Society of Toronto. Online Recital: Austin Wahl. Registration is required in advance here. A suggested donation of $20 can be made during registration.

Oct 17 7:00: New Adventures in Sound Art/Charles Street Video. Endosymbiosis: Live Electronic Music Performance with Liquid Light Imagery by Robert Fantinatto. A video and improvised electronic music performance which utilizes a variation on the technique of Liquid Light by replacing the overhead projector with a 4K video camera. The improvised music performed by Fantinatto uses a customized modular synthesizer along with slowed-down water sounds. The performance will be live-streamed over YouTube with Q&A discussion taking place afterwards on the Whereby platform. Online Location issued after Advance Registration here.

Oct 17 8:00: Royal Conservatory of Music. The Resounding Concert. A FREE online event. This celebration of music in support of Koerner Hall and The Royal Conservatory of Music will include performances by Chinese superstar pianist Lang Lang, celebrated American-Canadian soprano Sondra Radvanovsky, young Canadian pianist and an alumnus of the Conservatory’s Glenn Gould School Jan Lisiecki, Indian tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain in an exclusive improvised jam session with the world’s reigning rhythm section, Canadian concert violinist and violist James Ehnes, Cuban-Canadian singer-songwriter Alex Cuba, and award-winning British violinist Daniel Hope. The evening will also include appearances by Hollywood star Meryl Streep and Buffy Sainte-Marie, the legendary Cree singer-songwriter who has been a trailblazer, a disruptor of the status quo, as well as a recipient of an Honorary Fellowship from The Royal Conservatory. The livestream is available here.

Oct 18 2:00: TD Niagara Jazz Festival. LIVEstream.LOVE.WORLD Series #09 with Juneyt. Interested but can't attend? ALL of our livestreamed performances are available at our Facebook page and our YouTube channel. Enjoy this performance with our compliments. Donations in support of our Festival and our artists are gratefully accepted here. See our full lineup here.

Oct 18 7:00: Canzona Chamber Players. Sean Rice & Anna Petersen, Clarinet / Oboe Duo. See the concert here. In lieu of a concert ticket, donations to the St. Michael’s Hospital Foundation COVID-19 Courage Fund, in Memory of Elizabeth Krehm, can be made here.

NEW!! Oct 18 8:00: New Music Concerts. Virtually Yours: Anima. Sanya Eng, harp; Ryan Scott, percussion. Link to be provided at a future date.

Oct 22 8:00: Tafelmusik. Passions of the Soul. A livestreamed event curated and directed by Elisa Citterio. Bliss, grief, delight: experience a kaleidoscope of emotions with 18th-century music that will open your heart and mind. This concert is a microcosm of our season theme, “Passions of the Soul.” Works featured include Lalande’s Chaconne (inspired by the magnificent fountains of Versailles), Locatelli’s Sinfonia Funebre, and Telemann’s suite La Bourse, an irreverent depiction of the roller-coaster of emotions experienced by investors in the stock market. Single ticket purchasers will be able to re-access the concert for a full 24 hours after the original broadcast time. You can revisit your ticket link, contained in your confirmation email, to watch until October 23, 2020 at 7:59pm. $30 + service fees. Box Office: 1-833-964-6337. Visit our website here.

Oct 23 12 noon: Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra. SPO Music Performance S41E02. New music performances by members and friends of the SPO. Full performance details and links can be found here. Today's theme: Socially Distanced: Music for a Solo Instrument, J.S. Bach Plus.

Oct 23 7:00: TD Niagara Jazz Festival. LIVEstream.LOVE.JAZZ Series #43 with Jay Reed. Interested but can't attend? ALL of our livestreamed performances are available at our Facebook page and our YouTube channel. Enjoy this performance with our compliments. Donations in support of our Festival and our artists are gratefully accepted here. See our full lineup here.

Oct 23 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony. KWS Goes Online: Schubert and the Swedish Mozart. Andrei Feher, conductor. Kraus: Symphony in c; Schubert: Symphony No .5 in B-flat. Kraus has often been referred to as “the Swedish Mozart,” and while a talented composer in his own right, is overshadowed in popular memory by his famous contemporary. His Symphony in C is stormy and dramatic, full of turbulent passion. Schubert was infatuated with Mozart, but in contrast to Kraus’s symphony, his Symphony No. 5 is light and joyfully elegant. Purchase tickets here.

Oct 24 7:00: New Adventures in Sound Art and Charles Street Video. Adeva (version000_01): Electronic Music and Video Performance by Debashis Sinha. Debashis Sinha’s explorations of how his Bengali heritage can manifest through the toolset of contemporary electronic music continues with this livestream performance. The text and sound world of the Vedas (Hindu scriptures) is subjected to machine learning algorithms and processes to create content that lies just beyond the reach of human comprehension — a piecing together of half-understood and half-perceived bits of wisdom that is reconstructed by Sinha, and the listener in the moment of performance. Livestreamed over YouTube with Q&A discussion taking place afterwards on the Whereby platform. It is a co-presentation of New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) and Charles Street Video. Online location issued after Advance Registration here.

NEW!! Oct 24 7:30: Loose Tea Music Theatre. Dead Reckoning. A new musical adapted for film with book and lyrics by Lezlie Wade and composed by Scott Christian. With Laura Larson, Kelsey Falconer, Alicia Barban,  Aisha Jarvis, Sara Shanazarian. Online YouTube premiere. No tickets required. For information contact Alaina Viau at aviau@looseteamusictheatre. 

Oct 25 2:00: TD Markham Jazz Festival. Ready. Set. Connect. Concert #2. Spy Jazz with June Garber + Irene Torres, hosted by Jaymz Bee and featuring an exceptional band – Eric St. Laurent (guitars) George Koller (basses), Great Bob Scott (drums and percussion), Attila Fias (keyboards) and Alison Young (saxes). Tune in here prior to each concert.

Oct 26 12:15: Music Mondays. Folk & Song. Works by Brahms, Rachmaninoff, Dvořák, Gershwin and others. Beth Silver, cello; Jenna Richards, piano. Visit here.  

Oct 26 7:30: Art of Time Ensemble/Toronto International Festival of Authors. The Poem/The Song. Available online until Thursday, October 29th, 7:30pm. The Poem/The Song presents music inspired by poetry in a variety of contrasting musical settings. Highlights include two-time Booker Prize-winning author Margaret Atwood reading her poem Thriller Suite accompanied by an original musical composition from Canadian composer Dan Parr, Franz Liszt's musical impression of Petrarch's Sonnets, music from the worldwide smash-hit Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats, which was inspired by the poetry of T.S. Eliot, a fantastical setting of Walt Whitman by composer George Crumb and songs by Leonard Cohen. Performers include singers Thom Allison, Gregory Hoskins and Carla Huhtanen. RSVP here.

Oct 28 7:00 Opera Atelier. Something Rich and Strange. A fully-staged new creation featuring theatre music that explores the realms of dreams, visions and the supernatural. Featuring soprano Measha Brueggergosman, tenor Colin Ainsworth, and more. With Artists of Atelier Ballet and musicians from Tafelmusik led by Music Director Elisa Citterio. Music by Handel, Purcell and Lully. Livestreamed from Koerner Hall, TELUS Centre. $25. Buy livestream tickets here.

NEW!! Oct 29 8:00: New Music Concerts. Virtually Yours: Cello Masterworks. David Hetherington, cello. Link to be provided at a future date.

Oct 30 12 noon: Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra. SPOGreatMusic Podcast S41E04 - Beethoven: The Man and His Chamber Music - Part 1. Featuring interviews with special guests. Host: Dr. Daniel Mehdizadeh. Find links and further information here.

NEW!! Oct 30 6:30: SKINNAMARINK with Sharon and Randi, Back by Popular Demand! A live, interactive, virtual Halloween Costume Party Singalong. Visit the Skinnamarink with Sharon and Randi Home Routes page here. $15 plus tax. Families of three or more require two tickets. To buy tickets, go here.

Oct 30 8:00: The Piano Lunaire. Lunaire Live IV: Blue Moon Gala. Two-piano recital celebrating the rare Blue Moon. Streamed live from Toronto in collaboration with Yamaha Canada. Stephen Runge & Adam Sherkin, pianos. Adams: Hallelujah Junction; Sherkin: Ink from the Shield (2020 world premiere); Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances. $20 suggested donation. For more information, visit here.

DAILY LISTINGS FOR NOVEMBER

Nov 01 7:00: Canzona Chamber Players. Carina Canonica, David Gazille & Jonathan Krehm, Clarinet Duo / Trio. See the concert here. In lieu of a concert ticket, donations to the St. Michael’s Hospital Foundation COVID-19 Courage Fund, in Memory of Elizabeth Krehm, can be made here.

Nov 06 12 noon: Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra. SPO Music Performance S41E03 - Beethoven: The Man and His Chamber Music - Part 1. New music performances by members and friends of the SPO. Full performance details and links can be found here.

Nov 06 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony. KWS Goes Online: Royal Wood with the KWS. Evan Mitchell, conductor; Royal Wood, vocals/piano/guitar; Steve Zsirai, electric bass; Mark Mariash, drum set; Royal Wood, one of Canada’s best contemporary singer/songwriters, joins the KWS performing some of his greatest hits from across many of his albums. Renowned for his intimate and compelling performances, Royal Wood’s music is effortlessly melodic with lyrically astute perspectives on life and love, making for a seamless pairing with the orchestra. Purchase tickets here.

Nov 15 7:00: Canzona Chamber Players. Casba Kosco & Theresa Rudolph, Violin / Viola Duo. See the concert here. In lieu of a concert ticket, donations to the St. Michael’s Hospital Foundation COVID-19 Courage Fund, in Memory of Elizabeth Krehm, can be made here.

NEW!! Nov 20 7:00: The Music Gallery. Exquisite Departures. A webcast forming part of the Departures Series curated by Tad Michalak. At a time when live concerts have come to a halt The Departures Series, which typically presents off-site concerts featuring touring acts, has re-imagined its approach to musical collaboration. In an aim to spur the kind of creative interactions improvisers & video artists often manifest in the live realm in a safe and engaging way, this program has embarked on a new adaptation of an age-old game, Exquisite Corpse. Pioneered and popularized by French surrealists in the 20’s & 30’s, the game typically involves either illustration or text. One artist starts an image and passes it along to a second, who only seeing a small portion of the previous collaborator’s contribution continues the illustration, then passes it on to a third artist, so on and so forth. Fifteen Toronto based improvisers and six video artists were invited to play an audio / visual version of this game over 15 recorded tracks. Each musician was only able to listen to 10-15 seconds of the previous recording before adding their contribution to this collective improvisation. This project will be webcast here.

NEW!! Nov 28 8:00: New Music Concerts. Virtually Yours: Love Songs. A chamber opera performed by Xin Wang, soprano & Wallace Halladay, saxophone. Link to be provided at a future date.

Nov 29 2:00: TD Markham Jazz Festival. Ready. Set. Connect. Concert #3. Donovan Locke brings his rich voice and great spirit to an afternoon of memorable standards and more. Tune in here prior to each concert.

Nov 29 7:00: Canzona Chamber Players. Rachel Mercer & Yehonathan Berrick, Violin / Cello Duo. See the concert here. In lieu of a concert ticket, donations to the St. Michael’s Hospital Foundation COVID-19 Courage Fund, in Memory of Elizabeth Krehm, can be made here.

DAILY LISTINGS FOR DECEMBER

NEW!! Dec 04 7:30: Upper Canada Choristers/Cantemos. Comfort and Joy: A Holiday Offering. Livestreamed from Grace Church on-the-Hill, Toronto on YouTube and on Facebook. With Hye Won Cecilia Lee, piano. Works include Vivaldi’s Gloria, the song Comfort and Joy, with music by Laurie Evan Fraser and words by Jacqui Atkin, co-founders of the Choristers and Cantemos. The song is dedicated to the memory of beloved tenor chorister Bill Briggs, who passed away in September after a lengthy illness. Cantemos will sing three Villancicos de Navidad (Christmas Carols) from Spain written in 1556: Dadme albricias hijos d’Eva, No la devemos dormir, and Riu, Riu, Chiu. The audience will also be invited to sing along with some favourite carols. For information visit the Upper Canada Choristers website here, email info@uppercanadachoristers.org or call 416-256-0510.

ONGOING EVENTS

Arts@Home. A vibrant hub connecting Torontonians to arts and culture. Designed to strengthen personal and societal resilience through the arts. Visit here to learn more about this exciting collaborative initiative.

Kevin Barrett. Live from Lockdown. Kevin Barrett does a live-streamed set of solo guitar tunes, coming directly from lockdown in his studio in Kensington Market, Toronto. Tune in to Kevin's Facebook page on Friday here. If you can't join live, the video will be available afterwards on Kevin's page with each week's episode archived on his YouTube channel here.

Classical Jukebox Founded as a response to the days of COVID-19 social separation, this site is designed to provide you the ability to sing and perform your favorite classical pieces from the comfort of your own home, with accompaniments by organ and piano accompanist, Matthew Larkin. In addition, Classical Jukebox offers another service - assisting with the creation of Virtual Choirs and virtual choir videos for those missing that collaborative and artistic outlet in their lives. Further information can be found here.

Esprit Orchestra. Filmbites. The first series of Filmbites clips are from Larry Weinstein's 1989 film For the Whales, in which writers, musicians, and artists celebrate the majestic whale. The film explores the theme of preserving our environment through artistic and musical meditations. Watch this short introductory video with composer Alexina Louie by clicking here, then click here to watch the film.

New Music Concerts. Sonic Grace: An NMC Audio Diary. Listen to David Hetherington perform Carter's Figment recorded live with New Music Concerts at the Music Gallery on Dec. 18, 2007, by clicking here.

Ottawa Chamberfest. Chamber Chats: At Home / Chez vous. Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2pm. Hosted by celebrated broadcaster/writer Eric Friesen. Interactive episodes combine chat with pre-recorded and live performances and feature guest artists and lecturers from all over the world. For information: 613-234-8008. Visit the website here.

Recollectiv: Currently holding on-line meetings. A unique musical group made up of people affected by memory challenges caused by illness (such as dementia) or brain injury (stroke, PTSD, etc.) and their care partners. Volunteers of all ages also form part of the band, making this a positive intergenerational experience for all. Participation is free with pre-registration. Contact info@recollectiv.ca for meeting times, information and registration.

Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts. a•P•art {of} performance series, every Thursday at 7:30pm here.

PODCASTS

NEW!! Oct 27: Canadian Opera Company. Key Change: A COC Podcast. A fresh take on today's opera issues. Co-hosted by classical singer and culture critic Robyn Grant-Moran (a member of the COC’s Indigenous Circle of Artists) alongside COC Director/Dramaturg-in-Residence Julie McIsaac, the first season of bi-weekly episodes explores the operagoing experience from a variety of perspectives, with special guests from the opera field and beyond. This first episode features COC Music Director Johannes Debus, acclaimed American soprano Angel Blue, Ensemble Studio soprano Midori Marsh, and Canadian visual artist Shary Boyle recounting their first time at the opera — and what hooked them. New episodes air every other week. Admission is free and episodes will be available here or  wherever you get your podcasts.

PREVIOUSLY RECORDED

NEW!! Esprit Orchestra. Filmbites Clip #3: Excerpt from Ned Rorem’s String Symphony--Nocturnbe and Scherzo, as performed by Esprit Orchestra in Larry Weinstein's 1989 film For the Whales. The film explores the theme of preserving our environment through artistic and musical meditations in celebration of the majestic whale. Click here to watch.

Kingston Symphony. Finale of Beethoven’s Third Symphony (Eroica). Forty members of the orchestra perform the finale of the Eroica, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 while in isolation in their homes. To view the virtual performance, please click here. For more information on the Kingston Symphony, please visit here.

Koerner Hall. Concerts from Home.There are more than 25 classical, jazz, and roots music concerts currently available online. Check out the available items here.

Orchestre Métropolitain. Live stream of Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 1-8. On the websites of Orchestre Métropolitain and Bourgie Hall over the course of the summer of 2020. Visit here and here.

TD Toronto Jazz Festival. Online Premiere. Measha Brueggergosman, soprano; Lennie Gallant, guitar. The internationally acclaimed opera singer and concert artist co-wrote "Champions" with Lennie Gallant. The concert is available here.

Toronto Consort. Explorer: Discovering the World of Early Music. Explorer is a blog for the curious; a place of learning, sharing, and community. This all-new offering will present an assortment of curated content in a range of formats, like original short- or long-form articles, original video and audio recordings, and educational content on relevant topics relating to Early Music, history, and world music, as they relate our beloved repertoire. Visit here for further information.

Toronto Operetta Theatre. An archival video of Toronto Operetta Theatre's production of Jacinto Guerrero's Los Gavilanes (The Sparrow Hawks) performed in April 2016 at the Jane Mallett Theatre, St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, Toronto.This zarzuela tells the story of Juan, who returns to his native village in Spain from Peru as a wealthy man, at last worthy of marriage to his childhood sweetheart, Adriana. Separated for over twenty years, Adriana is unforgiving. In his absence, Adriana had married and is now a widow with a daughter, Rosaura. Adriana’s mother Leontina proposes that Juan marry Rosaura scandalizing the village. Juan is hesitant to complicate the situation especially as Rosaura is known to be in love with a young villager called Gustavo. This production features Guillermo Silva-Marin and some of Canada's most amazing voices to dazzle your ears and eyes. Watch scenes here.

VOICEBOX/Opera in Concert. Archival Video Project: Fierabras by Franz Schubert. Schubert’s opera had its Canadian premiere in 2019. If you missed our full production, please take a look at our gift to you with this video of excerpts featuring an amazing cast under the masterful conducting of Kevin Mallon and the Aradia Ensemble. It is a rare opera at its highest degree of excellence in performance. In the midst of wars between the Frankish Christians and Spanish Moors of the late 700s, conflicts are brought to an end with the intercession of a younger generation, where love conquers all. See the video here.

MASTER CLASSES

NEW!! Nov 22. ORMTA Central Toronto Branch. Online Composition Master Class. Submission deadline: Nov 13 @ 11:59pm. Information at 416-485-6562. $40. In celebration of Canada Music Week (Nov 22-28), ORMTA Central Toronto Branch is holding a Composition Master Class with composer clinician Christopher Norton. In this online composition master class, Connections and MicroJazz composer Christopher Norton will help refine new works by first-time and seasoned composers. Participants will submit scores and recordings of their works for Mr. Norton to review. He will send feedback in some combination of written comments, video response, and score annotations, highlighting strengths, giving suggestions for next steps, and perhaps suggesting related works for score study and listening. Contact Avila.Lotoski@hotmail.com for submission information.

PANEL DISCUSSIONS

NEW!! Oct 14 7:00-8:30: Canadian Opera Company. Free Digital Program: MindBodyMusic - Panel Discussion and Live Q&A. Building on the success of the COC's recent Music and Wellness programming, COC Composer-in-Residence Ian Cusson leads a panel discussion that explores the relationship between psychology, physiology, and musical experience. He is joined by a diverse panel of guests including music therapist Dr. SarahRose Black, Ensemble Studio singer Jamie Groote, physician Dr. Charles Limb, and Dr. Swathi Swaminathan, researcher at the Brain & Mind Research Institute. As active musicians themselves, they’ll offer a unique perspective into how the mind, body and music intersect. Audiences can submit their own questions for the panel in a live question and answer segment to follow. Visit here for full details and to tune in.

NOTE: All times are Eastern Time unless otherwise noted.

DAILY LISTINGS FOR THE COMING WEEK

Oct 01-18: Music Gallery. X Avant XV: Transmissions. Curated by Pratishtha Kohli and Olivia Shortt. OK Miss featuring Du Yun / Thin Edge New Music Collective; Leanne Simpson Trio / Rich Brown / Kaie Kellough & Jason Sharp; Tara Kannengara / c_RL/ Classic Roots / Mingjia / Norman Otis Richmond; Ron Gaskin Tribute / Alanna Stuart. All events FREE to stream. All shows will be available to stream online and will be a mix of on and off-site concerts produced by the Music Gallery; (still) located at 918 Bathurst Centre for Culture, Arts, Media and Education. Further information available here.

Oct 01 8:00: Tafelmusik. Mozart Together. Following many months of isolation and remote music making, the musicians of Tafelmusik gather for an emotional return to the concert stage. Filmed at Koerner Hall, TELUS Centre, this opening program of the reimagined 2020/21 season is devoted to chamber music originally intended to be played in private homes and salon gatherings among friends and family. Scored for two to eight instruments, these intimate works — almost all of them new to our musicians — capture the immediacy and connection we’ve all been craving. On display will be a more playful side of titans like Mozart, Beethoven, and Boccherini, including a movement from Mozart’s famous Sinfonia concertante in E-flat Major in an unusual arrangement for six string instruments, along with music by Michael Haydn, Družeckŷ, Sperger, and Spohr — classical composers eclipsed by these giants. An unforgettable homecoming. For more information, visit here.

Oct 02 12 noon: Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra. SPOGreatMusic Podcast: Episode 2 - Plagues, Pandemics, and Musicians.  Featuring interviews with special guests. Host: Dr. Daniel Mehdizadeh. For links, visit here.

Oct 02 7:30: Stockey Centre/Festival of the Sound. Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue Live. Featuring George Gershwin’s phenomenal Rhapsody in Blue among many other incredible pieces, all performed by a number of our most beloved Festival Artists such as Jamie Parker, Guy Few, Mark Fewer, and James Campbell. This concert is available both in person and virtually. LIVE Concert Tickets: $42.95 + HST. Available only at the Stockey Centre Box Office. Limited tickets available for purchase in person (2 Bay Street) or by phone at 1-877-746-4466. VIRTUAL/LIVESTREAM Concert Tickets: $22.95 + HST. Available only at the Festival Box Office. Unlimited tickets available for purchase online here,  in person (1 Avenue Road), or by phone at 1-866-866-364-0061. Online virtual ticket purchases will be acknowledged within 24 hours via confirmation email.

Oct 02 7:30: The Upper Canada Choristers. Inti Ukana: A Latin American Tapestry. A live-streamed performance on With conductor Laurie Evan Fraser, pianist Hye Won Cecilia Lee, Cantemos Latin ensemble, M.C. Laura Fernandez; guest artists including Bernardo Padron. Visit here or call 416-256-0510 or email info@uppercanadachoristers.org.

Oct 04 2:00: TD Niagara Jazz Festival. LIVEstream.LOVE.WORLD Series #07 with Laura Fernandez. Interested but can't attend? ALL our livestreamed performances are available at our Facebook page and our YouTube channel. Enjoy this performance with our compliments. Donations in support of our Festival and our artists are gratefully accepted here. See our full lineup here.

NEW!! Oct 04 4:00: FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre. Niagara Regional Native Centre's (Virtual) Powwow. The Niagara Regional Native Centre in partnership with the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre is hosting their 8th Annual Nurturing Our Roots Powwow VIRTUALLY this year. Each year the event is held at Montebello Park in St. Catharines with a full day of festivities. The Powwow is an opportunity to share in the richness of Indigenous culture by enjoying traditional dancing, drumming, singing, crafts, food and drink, and community spirit. As we cannot come together in person this year, please join us virtually via the livestream on www.FirstOntarioPAC.ca  or on the PAC's Facebook and YouTube channels.

UPDATED!! Oct 04 7:00: Canzona Chamber Players. Jonathan Crow & Joe Johnson, Violin / Cello Duet. Gliere: From Eight Pieces for Violin and Cello, Op. 39 - Prelude, Gavotte, Etude, Scherzo. Alice Hong: The Current and Those Who Ride It. Kodàly: Duo for Violin and Cello, Op. 7: Allegro serioso, non troppo, Adagio, Maestoso e largamente, ma non troppo lento. Handel-Halvorsen: Passacaglia for Violin and Cello. Enjoy the concert here. In lieu of a concert ticket, donations to the St. Michael’s Hospital Foundation COVID-19 Courage Fund, in Memory of Elizabeth Krehm, can be made here.

NEW!! Oct 05 12:15: Music Mondays. A Medieval Musical Pilgrimage. Andrea Gerhardt and Michael Franklin accompany you with voices, recorders, harp, flutes, hurdy-gurdy, reed pipes and percussion on a musical journey starting with Hildegard von Bingen's divinely inspired visions and sonic meditations from twelfth century Germany to the sacred songs and dances from the mountain monastery of Monserrat in 14th-century Catalunya, with some side trips and detours along the way. The stream and full program notes will be available here.

Oct 07 8:00: Arraymusic. Livestream Concert with Ryan Driver and The Titillators. Find the livestream here.

Oct 07 8:00: Burlington Performing Arts Centre. Chantal Kreviazuk: Live Simulcast. Main Theatre. $25; $20(members). Further information available here. 

Oct 08 8:00: Freesound/The Canadian Music Centre. Freesound 03. Kicking off our 2020-21 season online! We're very excited to be partnering with the Canadian Music Centre to present a concert of fantastic works for clarinet, violin, and piano by Canadian composers Jason Doell and Anna Höstman. Available on the CMC Website Stream here.

UPCOMING DAILY LISTINGS

Oct 09 12:00 noon: Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra. SPOGreatMusic Performance S41E01. New music performances by members and friends of the SPO. Full performance details are available here.

Oct 09 7:00: TD Niagara Jazz Festival. LIVEstream.LOVE.JAZZ Series #41 with Bill Mays. Interested but can't attend? ALL our livestreamed performances are available at our Facebook page and our YouTube channel. Enjoy this performance with our compliments. Donations in support of our Festival and our artists are gratefully accepted here. See our full LIVEstream.LOVE.WORLD.Series Lineup here.

Oct 09 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony. KWS Goes Online: Fly Me to the Moon - Sinatra and Beyond. Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser, conductor; Michael Vanhevel, vocalist. In a tribute to the world’s greatest crooners, singer Michael Vanhevel and the KWS take you on a sentimental journey of crooner classics including songs like Fly Me to the Moon, Unforgettable, The Way You Look Tonight and so many more. Purchase tickets here.

Oct 10 8:00: Toronto Mendelssohn Choir. Kannamma: A Concert of Thanksgiving. From Bach to the Beatles, from visual arts to dance to drumming to singing this concert of thanksgiving brings together an amazing group of artists in a program of choral music and more that evocatively expresses gratitude. TMC Associate Conductor Simon Rivard and Guest Curator Suba Sankaran have put together a diverse program that brings together songs of thanks, gratitude and love, spanning several centuries, multiple genres and disciplines that cross cultures. Works will include European classical to jazz to pop to South Indian Karnatak music, to refreshing original compositions, complemented by visual arts and dance performance. Program is free to view but please consider a donation in support of our online programming during the pandemic. Enjoy the concert here.

Oct 11 3:00: Danny Michel. Live From Lockdown: Thanksgiving Weekend Show. Tickets are $15. Danny has set aside 25 tickets for those who are not in a position to purchase a ticket but would like to be a part of this event. If that's you, then email info@dannymichel.com with the subject "Guestlist Oct 11". No explanations necessary and no questions asked. Visit here to buy tickets. 

Oct 16 12 noon: Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra. SPOGreatMusic Podcast: Episode 3 - Socially Distanced: Music for a Solo Instrument: J.S. Bach Plus.. Featuring interviews with special guests. Host: Dr. Daniel Mehdizadeh. Find links and further information at our website here.

UPDATED!! Oct 16. Tafelmusik. Baroque for Baby. A kid-friendly playlist curated by violinist and mother of two, Cristina Zacharias. Selections from renowned Tafelmusik recordings include music by Telemann, Purcell, Lully, Vivaldi, Handel, Monteverdi, Rameau, Merula, Sweelink, and Marais. Zacharias’s choices balance enlivening, energetic music that encourages children to move and dance with calming, quieter pieces for bedtime. More information is available here.

NEW!! Oct 17 7:00: FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre. Gord's Legacy: A Free Virtual Experience to Honour Gord Downie. This event lasts until 8pm. FREE. Information available here.

Oct 17 7:00: Guitar Society of Toronto. Online Recital: Austin Wahl. Registration is required in advance here. A suggested donation of $20 can be made during registration.

Oct 17 7:00: New Adventures in Sound Art/Charles Street Video. Endosymbiosis: Live Electronic Music Performance with Liquid Light Imagery by Robert Fantinatto. A video and improvised electronic music performance which utilizes a variation on the technique of Liquid Light by replacing the overhead projector with a 4K video camera. The improvised music performed by Fantinatto uses a customized modular synthesizer along with slowed-down water sounds. The performance will be live-streamed over YouTube with Q&A discussion taking place afterwards on the Whereby platform. Online Location issued after Advance Registration here.

NEW!! Oct 17 8:00: Royal Conservatory of Music. The Resounding Concert. A FREE online event. This celebration of music in support of Koerner Hall and The Royal Conservatory of Music will include performances by Chinese superstar pianist Lang Lang, celebrated American-Canadian soprano Sondra Radvanovsky, young Canadian pianist and an alumnus of the Conservatory’s Glenn Gould School Jan Lisiecki, Indian tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain in an exclusive improvised jam session with the world’s reigning rhythm section, Canadian concert violinist and violist James Ehnes, Cuban-Canadian singer-songwriter Alex Cuba, and award-winning British violinist Daniel Hope. The evening will also include appearances by Hollywood star Meryl Streep and Buffy Sainte-Marie, the legendary Cree singer-songwriter who has been a trailblazer, a disruptor of the status quo, as well as a recipient of an Honorary Fellowship from The Royal Conservatory. The livestream is available here.

Oct 18 2:00: TD Niagara Jazz Festival. LIVEstream.LOVE.WORLD Series #09 with Juneyt. Interested but can't attend? ALL our livestreamed performances are available at our Facebook page and our YouTube channel. Enjoy this performance with our compliments. Donations in support of our Festival and our artists are gratefully accepted here. See our full lineup here.

Oct 18 7:00: Canzona Chamber Players. Sean Rice & Anna Petersen, Clarinet / Oboe Duo. See the concert here. In lieu of a concert ticket, donations to the St. Michael’s Hospital Foundation COVID-19 Courage Fund, in Memory of Elizabeth Krehm, can be made here.

Oct 22 8:00: Tafelmusik. Passions of the Soul. A livestreamed event curated and directed by Elisa Citterio. Bliss, grief, delight: experience a kaleidoscope of emotions with 18th-century music that will open your heart and mind. This concert is a microcosm of our season theme, “Passions of the Soul.” In their quest to awe and inspire, 18th-century composers strove to describe the desires of the soul and touch the hearts of listeners with poignant and captivating music. Works featured include Lalande’s Chaconne (inspired by the magnificent fountains of Versailles); Locatelli’s Sinfonia Funebre, and Telemann’s suite La Bourse, an irreverent depiction of the roller-coaster of emotions experienced by investors in the stock market. Single ticket purchasers will be able to re-access the concert for a full 24 hours after the original broadcast time. You can revisit your ticket link, contained in your confirmation email, to watch until October 23, 2020 at 7:59pm. $30 + service fees. Box Office: 1-833-964-6337. Visit our website here.

Oct 23 12 noon: Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra. SPO Music Performance S41E02. New music performances by members and friends of the SPO. Full performance details and links can be found here. Today's theme: Socially Distanced: Music for a Solo Instrument, J.S. Bach Plus.

Oct 23 7:00: TD Niagara Jazz Festival. LIVEstream.LOVE.JAZZ Series #43 with Jay Reed. Interested but can't attend? ALL our livestreamed performances are available at our Facebook page and our YouTube channel. Enjoy this performance with our compliments. Donations in support of our Festival and our artists are gratefully accepted here. See our full lineup here.

Oct 23 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony. KWS Goes Online: Schubert and the Swedish Mozart. Andrei Feher, conductor. Kraus: Symphony in c; Schubert: Symphony No.5 in B-flat. Kraus has often been referred to as “the Swedish Mozart,” and while a talented composer in his own right, is overshadowed in popular memory by his famous contemporary. His Symphony in C is stormy and dramatic, full of turbulent passion. Schubert was infatuated with Mozart, but in contrast to Kraus’s symphony, his Symphony No.5 is light and joyfully elegant. Purchase tickets here. 

Oct 24 7:00: New Adventures in Sound Art and Charles Street Video. Adeva (version000_01): Electronic Music and Video Performance by Debashis Sinha. Debashis Sinha’s explorations of how his Bengali heritage can manifest through the toolset of contemporary electronic music continues with this livestream performance. This is a project started in 2019 at the MUTEK JP AI Music Lab, where Sinha began exploring machine learning and AI and their applications in sound, and where he realized their use as a dramaturgical tool in the story-based explorations and re-imaginings of Hindu myth he has been creating for nearly two decades. The text and sound world of the Vedas (Hindu scriptures) is subjected to machine learning algorithms and processes to create content that lies just beyond the reach of human comprehension — a piecing together of half-understood and half-perceived bits of wisdom that is reconstructed by Sinha, and the listener in the moment of performance. The performance will be live-streamed over YouTube with Q&A discussion taking place afterwards on the Whereby platform. It is a co-presentation of New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) and Charles Street Video. Online location issued after Advance Registration here.

Oct 25 2:00: TD Markham Jazz Festival. Ready. Set. Connect. Concert #2. Spy Jazz with June Garber + Irene Torres, hosted by Jaymz Bee and featuring an exceptional band – Eric St. Laurent (guitars) George Koller (basses), Great Bob Scott (drums and percussion), Attila Fias (keyboards) and Alison Young (saxes). Tune in here prior to each concert.

Oct 26 12:15: Music Mondays. Folk & Song. Works by Brahms, Rachmaninoff, Dvořák, Gershwin and others. Beth Silver, cello; Jenna Richards, piano. Visit here.  

Oct 26 7:30: Art of Time Ensemble/Toronto International Festival of Authors. The Poem/The Song. Available online until Thursday, October 29th, 7:30pm. The Poem/The Song presents music inspired by poetry in a variety of contrasting musical settings. Highlights include two-time Booker Prize-winning author Margaret Atwood reading her poem Thriller Suite accompanied by an original musical composition from Canadian composer Dan Parr, Franz Liszt's musical impression of Petrarch's Sonnets, music from the worldwide smash-hit Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats, which was inspired by the poetry of T.S. Eliot, a fantastical setting of Walt Whitman by composer George Crumb and songs by Leonard Cohen. Performers include singers Thom Allison, Gregory Hoskins and Carla Huhtanen. RSVP here.

Oct 28 7:00 Opera Atelier. Something Rich and Strange. A fully-staged new creation featuring theatre music that explores the realms of dreams, visions and the supernatural. Featuring soprano Measha Brueggergosman, tenor Colin Ainsworth, and more. With Artists of Atelier Ballet and musicians from Tafelmusik led by Music Director Elisa Citterio. Music by Handel, Purcell and Lully. Livestreamed from Koerner Hall, TELUS Centre. $25. Buy livestream tickets here.

Oct 30 12 noon: Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra. SPOGreatMusic Podcast S41E04 - Beethoven: The Man and His Chamber Music - Part 1. Featuring interviews with special guests. Host: Dr. Daniel Mehdizadeh. Find links and further information here.

Oct 30 8:00: The Piano Lunaire. Lunaire Live IV: Blue Moon Gala. Two-piano recital celebrating the rare Blue Moon. Streamed live from Toronto in collaboration with Yamaha Canada. Stephen Runge & Adam Sherkin, pianos. Adams: Hallelujah Junction; Sherkin: Ink from the Shield (2020 world premiere); Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances. $20 suggested donation. For more information, visit here.

Nov 01 7:00: Canzona Chamber Players. Carina Canonica, David Gazille & Jonathan Krehm, Clarinet Duo / Trio. See the concert here. In lieu of a concert ticket, donations to the St. Michael’s Hospital Foundation COVID-19 Courage Fund, in Memory of Elizabeth Krehm, can be made here.

Nov 06 12 noon: Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra. SPO Music Performance S41E03 - Beethoven: The Man and His Chamber Music - Part 1. New music performances by members and friends of the SPO. Full performance details and links can be found here.

Nov 06 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony. KWS Goes Online: Royal Wood with the KWS. Evan Mitchell, conductor; Royal Wood, vocals/piano/guitar; Steve Zsirai, electric bass; Mark Mariash, drum set; Royal Wood, one of Canada’s best contemporary singer/songwriters, joins the KWS performing some of his greatest hits from across many of his albums. Renowned for his intimate and compelling performances, Royal Wood’s music is effortlessly melodic with lyrically astute perspectives on life and love, making for a seamless pairing with the orchestra. Purchase tickets here.

Nov 15 7:00: Canzona Chamber Players. Casba Kosco & Theresa Rudolph, Violin / Viola Duo. See the concert here. In lieu of a concert ticket, donations to the St. Michael’s Hospital Foundation COVID-19 Courage Fund, in Memory of Elizabeth Krehm, can be made here.

Nov 29 2:00: TD Markham Jazz Festival. Ready. Set. Connect. Concert #3. Donovan Locke brings his rich voice and great spirit to an afternoon of memorable standards and more. Tune in here prior to each concert.

Nov 29 7:00: Canzona Chamber Players. Rachel Mercer & Yehonathan Berrick, Violin / Cello Duo. See the concert here. In lieu of a concert ticket, donations to the St. Michael’s Hospital Foundation COVID-19 Courage Fund, in Memory of Elizabeth Krehm, can be made here.

ONGOING EVENTS

Arts@Home. A vibrant hub connecting Torontonians to arts and culture. Designed to strengthen personal and societal resilience through the arts. Visit here to learn more about this exciting collaborative initiative.

Kevin Barrett. Live from Lockdown. Kevin Barrett does a live-streamed set of solo guitar tunes, coming directly from lockdown in his studio in Kensington Market, Toronto. Tune in to Kevin's Facebook page on Friday here. If you can't join live, the video will be available afterwards on Kevin's page with each week's episode archived on his YouTube channel here.

Classical Jukebox Founded as a response to the days of COVID-19 social separation, this site is designed to provide you the ability to sing and perform your favorite classical pieces from the comfort of your own home, with accompaniments by organ and piano accompanist, Matthew Larkin. In addition, Classical Jukebox offers another service - assisting with the creation of Virtual Choirs and virtual choir videos for those missing that collaborative and artistic outlet in their lives. Further information can be found here.

Esprit Orchestra. Filmbites. The first series of Filmbites clips are from Larry Weinstein's 1989 film For the Whales, in which writers, musicians, and artists celebrate the majestic whale. The film explores the theme of preserving our environment through artistic and musical meditations. Watch this short introductory video with composer Alexina Louie by clicking here, then click here to watch the film.

Esprit Orchestra. Soundbites. The latest Soundbite in our series is an excerpt from the World Premiere performance of Quinn Jacobs' Music About Music. This concert is conducted by Eugene Astapov and was performed by Esprit Orchestra in Trinity St. Paul's Centre on April 5, 2019. Listen here. Enjoy a conversation with Quinn Jacobs and Alex Pauk here.

New Music Concerts. Sonic Grace: An NMC Audio Diary. Listen to David Hetherington perform Carter's Figment recorded live with New Music Concerts at the Music Gallery on Dec. 18, 2007, by clicking here.

Ottawa Chamberfest. Chamber Chats: At Home / Chez vous. Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2pm. Hosted by celebrated broadcaster/writer Eric Friesen. Interactive episodes combine chat with pre-recorded and live performances and feature guest artists and lecturers from all over the world. For information: 613-234-8008. Visit the website here.

Recollectiv: Currently holding on-line meetings. A unique musical group made up of people affected by memory challenges caused by illness (such as dementia) or brain injury (stroke, PTSD, etc.) and their care partners. Volunteers of all ages also form part of the band, making this a positive intergenerational experience for all. Participation is free with pre-registration. Contact info@recollectiv.ca for meeting times, information and registration.

Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts. a•P•art {of} performance series, every Thursday at 7:30pm here.

PREVIOUSLY RECORDED

Kingston Symphony. Finale of Beethoven’s Third Symphony (Eroica). Forty members of the orchestra perform the finale of the Eroica, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 while in isolation in their homes. To view the virtual performance, please click here. For more information on the Kingston Symphony, please visit here.

Koerner Hall. Concerts from Home.There are more than 25 classical, jazz, and roots music concerts currently available online. Check out the available items here.

Orchestre Métropolitain. Live stream of Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 1-8. On the websites of Orchestre Métropolitain and Bourgie Hall over the course of the summer of 2020. Visit here and here.

TD Toronto Jazz Festival. Online Premiere. Measha Brueggergosman, soprano; Lennie Gallant, guitar. The internationally acclaimed opera singer and concert artist co-wrote "Champions" with Lennie Gallant. The concert is available here.

Toronto Consort. Explorer: Discovering the World of Early Music. Explorer is a blog for the curious; a place of learning, sharing, and community. This all-new offering will present an assortment of curated content in a range of formats, like original short- or long-form articles, original video and audio recordings, and educational content on relevant topics relating to Early Music, history, and world music, as they relate our beloved repertoire. Visit here for further information.

Toronto Operetta Theatre. An archival video of Toronto Operetta Theatre's production of Jacinto Guerrero's Los Gavilanes (The Sparrow Hawks) performed in April 2016 at the Jane Mallett Theatre, St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, Toronto.This zarzuela tells the story of Juan, who returns to his native village in Spain from Peru as a wealthy man, at last worthy of marriage to his childhood sweetheart, Adriana. Separated for over twenty years, Adriana is unforgiving. In his absence, Adriana had married and is now a widow with a daughter, Rosaura. Adriana’s mother Leontina proposes that Juan marry Rosaura scandalizing the village. Juan is hesitant to complicate the situation especially as Rosaura is known to be in love with a young villager called Gustavo. This production features Guillermo Silva-Marin and some of Canada's most amazing voices to dazzle your ears and eyes. Watch scenes here.

VOICEBOX|Opera in Concert. Archival Video Project: Fierabras by Franz Schubert. Schubert’s opera had its Canadian premiere in 2019. If you missed our full production, please take a look at our gift to you with this video of excerpts featuring an amazing cast under the masterful conducting of Kevin Mallon and the Aradia Ensemble. It is a rare opera at its highest degree of excellence in performance. In the midst of wars between the Frankish Christians and Spanish Moors of the late 700s, conflicts are brought to an end with the intercession of a younger generation, where love conquers all. See the video here.

WORKSHOPS

Oct 04 1:30: Toronto Early Music Players Organization (TEMPO). Online Workshop. Lawrence Lipnik will be leading our October event. Lawrence has performed with many acclaimed early music ensembles from ARTEK and Anonymous 4 to Piffaro and the Waverly Consort, and is a founding member of the viol consort Parthenia and vocal ensemble Lionheart. He teaches recorder and viol on Amherst Early Music Online. The workshop continues until 3:00pm. Please visit the TEMPO website here for more information on how to participate online.

To submit relevant listings click here.

NOTE: All times are Eastern Time unless otherwise noted.

DAILY LISTINGS

NEW!! Sep 25 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony. KWS Goes Online: Mozart’s Jupiter Symphony. Andre Feher, conductor. Wagner: Siegfried Idyll; Mozart: Symphony No.41 “Jupiter”. Wagner is perhaps best-known for his grand operatic works, but his Siegfried Idyll, a symphonic poem for chamber orchestra, reflects a gentle, tender side of the composer. Mozart’s Jupiter Symphony, the final one he composed and his most famous, is known for its good humour, exuberant energy and unusually grand scale for a symphony of the time. Purchase tickets here.

NEW!! Sep 25 7:00: TD Niagara Jazz Festival. LIVEstream.LOVE.WORLD Series #41 with The HAUS Trio. Brent Setterington, EP, keyboard bass, backing vocals; Peter Shea, piano, B3, vocals; Marcus Gazzellone, drums. Interested but can't attend? ALL our livestreamed performances are available at our Facebook page and our YouTube channel. Enjoy this performance with our compliments. Donations in support of our Festival and our artists are gratefully accepted here. See our full lineup here.

Sep 27 2:00: TD Markham Jazz Festival. Ready. Set. Connect. Concert #1. Trumpet phenom Alexis Baro kicks off our streamed series with a quintet of award-winning talent! Tune in here prior to each concert.

Sep 27 7:00 Canzona Chamber Players. George Koller: Livestreamed Solo Recital. A Benefit For St. Michael's COVID-19 Courage Fund. See the concert here. In lieu of a concert ticket, donations to the St. Michael’s Hospital Foundation COVID-19 Courage Fund, in Memory of Elizabeth Krehm, can be made here.

NEW!! Sep 28 12:15: Music Mondays. Mozart's Genius: Alex Toskov, Goran Gojevic, and Talisa Blackman. Alex Toskov, violin and viola; Goran Gojevic, clarinet, and Talisa Blackman, piano all unite for a performance of Bach duos for violin and bass clarinet, followed by works by Lewin, Schubert, and Schumann, and finally the powerful 'Kegelstatt' Trio K498 by Mozart. The audience will have the opportunity to hear the distinct sounds of five acoustic instruments, as Alex Toskov will perform on both violin and viola and Goran Gojevic will perform on B-flat clarinet and bass clarinet.The stream and full program notes will be available here.

NEW!! Sep 30 7:00: Hugh’s Room Live. Tom Paxton Livestream. Tom Paxton teams up with the Grammy-winning singer/songwriter duo The Don Juans - Don Henry & Jon Vezner. Tickets are $20 and can be purchased by clicking here. Once you purchase a ticket, you'll receive a link to the show.  

UPDATE!! Oct 01 8:00: The Piano Lunaire. Lunaire Live III: The Harvest Moon. Pianist Adam Sherkin performs music by Liszt: Années de pèlerinage S160 Nos. 4-5; Barber: Ballade Op.48; Bach: Capriccio on the Departure of a Dearly Beloved Brother BWV 992; Adam Sherkin: Tagish Fires Op.21. $20 suggested donation. For more information, visit here.

NEW!! Oct 01-18: Music Gallery. X Avant XV: Transmissions. Curated by Pratishtha Kohli and Olivia Shortt. OK Miss featuring Du Yun / Thin Edge New Music Collective; Leanne Simpson Trio / Rich Brown / Kaie Kellough & Jason Sharp; Tara Kannengara / c_RL/ Classic Roots / Mingjia / Norman Otis Richmond; Ron Gaskin Tribute / Alanna Stuart. All events FREE to stream. All shows will be available to stream online and will be a mix of on and off-site concerts produced by the Music Gallery; (still) located at 918 Bathurst Centre for Culture, Arts, Media and Education. Further information available here.

Oct 01 8:00: Tafelmusik. Mozart Together. Following many months of isolation and remote music making, the musicians of Tafelmusik gather for an emotional return to the concert stage. Filmed at Koerner Hall, TELUS Centre, this opening program of the reimagined 2020/21 season is devoted to chamber music originally intended to be played in private homes and salon gatherings among friends and family. Scored for two to eight instruments, these intimate works — almost all of them new to our musicians — capture the immediacy and connection we’ve all been craving. On display will be a more playful side of titans like Mozart, Beethoven, and Boccherini, including a movement from Mozart’s famous Sinfonia concertante in E-flat Major in an unusual arrangement for six string instruments, along with music by Michael Haydn, Družeckŷ, Sperger, and Spohr — classical composers eclipsed by these giants. An unforgettable homecoming. For more information, visit here.

Oct 02 12 noon: Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra. SPOGreatMusic Podcast: Episode 2 - Plagues, Pandemics, and Musicians.  Featuring interviews with special guests. Host: Dr. Daniel Mehdizadeh. For links, visit here.

Oct 02 7:30: Stockey Centre/Festival of the Sound. Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue Live. Featuring George Gershwin’s phenomenal Rhapsody in Blue among many other incredible pieces, all performed by a number of our most beloved Festival Artists such as Jamie Parker, Guy Few, Mark Fewer, and James Campbell. This concert is available both in person and virtually. LIVE Concert Tickets: $42.95 + HST. Available only at the Stockey Centre Box Office. Limited tickets available for purchase in person (2 Bay Street) or by phone at 1-877-746-4466. VIRTUAL/LIVESTREAM Concert Tickets: $22.95 + HST. Available only at the Festival Box Office. Unlimited tickets available for purchase online here,  in person (1 Avenue Road), or by phone at 1-866-866-364-0061. Online virtual ticket purchases will be acknowledged within 24 hours via confirmation email.

Oct 02 7:30: The Upper Canada Choristers. Inti Ukana: A Latin American Tapestry. A live-streamed performance on With conductor Laurie Evan Fraser, pianist Hye Won Cecilia Lee, Cantemos Latin ensemble, M.C. Laura Fernandez; guest artists including Bernardo Padron. Visit here or call 416-256-0510 or email info@uppercanadachoristers.org.

Oct 04 2:00: TD Niagara Jazz Festival. LIVEstream.LOVE.WORLD Series #07 with Laura Fernandez. Interested but can't attend? ALL our livestreamed performances are available at our Facebook page and our YouTube channel. Enjoy this performance with our compliments. Donations in support of our Festival and our artists are gratefully accepted here. See our full lineup here.

NEW!! Oct 04 7:00: Canzona Chamber Players. Jonathan Crow & Joe Johnson, Violin / Cello Duet. See the concert here. In lieu of a concert ticket, donations to the St. Michael’s Hospital Foundation COVID-19 Courage Fund, in Memory of Elizabeth Krehm, can be made here.

Oct 07 8:00: Arraymusic. Livestream Concert with Ryan Driver and The Titillators. Find the livestream here.

NEW!! Oct 07 8:00: Burlington Performing Arts Centre. Chantal Kreviazuk: Live Simulcast. Main Theatre. $25; $20(members). Further information available here. 

Oct 08 8:00: Freesound/The Canadian Music Centre. Freesound 03. Kicking off our 2020-21 season online! We're very excited to be partnering with the Canadian Music Centre to present a concert of fantastic works for clarinet, violin, and piano by Canadian composers Jason Doell and Anna Höstman. Available on the CMC Website Stream here.

Oct 09 12:00 noon: Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra. SPOGreatMusic Performance S41E01. New music performances by members and friends of the SPO. Full performance details are available here.

Oct 09 7:00: TD Niagara Jazz Festival. LIVEstream.LOVE.JAZZ Series #41 with Bill Mays. Interested but can't attend? ALL our livestreamed performances are available at our Facebook page and our YouTube channel. Enjoy this performance with our compliments. Donations in support of our Festival and our artists are gratefully accepted here. See our full LIVEstream.LOVE.WORLD.Series Lineup here.

NEW!! Oct 9 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony. KWS Goes Online: Fly Me to the Moon - Sinatra and Beyond. Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser, conductor; Michael Vanhevel, vocalist. In a tribute to the world’s greatest crooners, singer Michael Vanhevel and the KWS take you on a sentimental journey of crooner classics including songs like Fly Me to the Moon, Unforgettable, The Way You Look Tonight and so many more. Purchase tickets here.

Oct 10 8:00: Toronto Mendelssohn Choir. Kannamma: A Concert of Thanksgiving. From Bach to the Beatles, from visual arts to dance to drumming to singing this concert of thanksgiving brings together an amazing group of artists in a program of choral music and more that evocatively expresses gratitude. TMC Associate Conductor Simon Rivard and Guest Curator Suba Sankaran have put together a diverse program that brings together songs of thanks, gratitude and love, spanning several centuries, multiple genres and disciplines that cross cultures. Works will include European classical to jazz to pop to South Indian Karnatak music, to refreshing original compositions, complemented by visual arts and dance performance. Program is free to view but please consider a donation in support of our online programming during the pandemic. Enjoy the concert here.

NEW!! Oct 11 3:00: Danny Michel. Live From Lockdown: Thanksgiving Weekend Show. Tickets are $15. Danny has set aside 25 tickets for those who are not in a position to purchase a ticket but would like to be a part of this event. If that's you, then email info@dannymichel.com with the subject "Guestlist Oct 11". No explanations necessary and no questions asked. Visit here to buy tickets. 

Oct 16 12 noon: Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra. SPOGreatMusic Podcast: Episode 3 - Socially Distanced: Music for a Solo Instrument: J.S. Bach Plus.. Featuring interviews with special guests. Host: Dr. Daniel Mehdizadeh. Find links and further information at our website here.

NEW!! Oct 17 7:00: Guitar Society of Toronto. Online Recital: Austin Wahl. Registration is required in advance here. A suggested donation of $20 can be made during registration.

Oct 17 7:00: New Adventures in Sound Art/Charles Street Video. Endosymbiosis: Live Electronic Music Performance with Liquid Light Imagery by Robert Fantinatto. A video and improvised electronic music performance which utilizes a variation on the technique of Liquid Light by replacing the overhead projector with a 4K video camera. The improvised music performed by Fantinatto uses a customized modular synthesizer along with slowed-down water sounds. The performance will be live-streamed over YouTube with Q&A discussion taking place afterwards on the Whereby platform. Online Location issued after Advance Registration at here.

Oct 18 2:00: TD Niagara Jazz Festival. LIVEstream.LOVE.WORLD Series #09 with Juneyt. Interested but can't attend? ALL our livestreamed performances are available at our Facebook page and our YouTube channel. Enjoy this performance with our compliments. Donations in support of our Festival and our artists are gratefully accepted here. See our full lineup here.

NEW!! Oct 18 7:00: Canzona Chamber Players. Sean Rice & Anna Petersen, Clarinet / Oboe Duo. See the concert here. In lieu of a concert ticket, donations to the St. Michael’s Hospital Foundation COVID-19 Courage Fund, in Memory of Elizabeth Krehm, can be made here.

Oct 22 8:00: Tafelmusik. Passions of the Soul. A livestreamed event curated and directed by Elisa Citterio. Bliss, grief, delight: experience a kaleidoscope of emotions with 18th-century music that will open your heart and mind. This concert is a microcosm of our season theme, “Passions of the Soul.” In their quest to awe and inspire, 18th-century composers strove to describe the desires of the soul and touch the hearts of listeners with poignant and captivating music. Works featured include Lalande’s Chaconne (inspired by the magnificent fountains of Versailles); Locatelli’s Sinfonia Funebre, and Telemann’s suite La Bourse, an irreverent depiction of the roller-coaster of emotions experienced by investors in the stock market. Single ticket purchasers will be able to re-access the concert for a full 24 hours after the original broadcast time. You can revisit your ticket link, contained in your confirmation email, to watch until October 23, 2020 at 7:59pm. $30 + service fees. Box Office: 1-833-964-6337. Visit our website here.

Oct 23 12 noon: Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra. SPO Music Performance S41E02. New music performances by members and friends of the SPO. Full performance details and links can be found here. Today's theme: Socially Distanced: Music for a Solo Instrument, J.S. Bach Plus.

Oct 23 7:00: TD Niagara Jazz Festival. LIVEstream.LOVE.JAZZ Series #43 with Jay Reed. Interested but can't attend? ALL our livestreamed performances are available at our Facebook page and our YouTube channel. Enjoy this performance with our compliments. Donations in support of our Festival and our artists are gratefully accepted here. See our full lineup here.

NEW!! Oct 23 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony. KWS Goes Online: Schubert and the Swedish Mozart. Andrei Feher, conductor. Kraus: Symphony in c; Schubert: Symphony No.5 in B-flat. Kraus has often been referred to as “the Swedish Mozart,” and while a talented composer in his own right, is overshadowed in popular memory by his famous contemporary. His Symphony in C is stormy and dramatic, full of turbulent passion. Schubert was infatuated with Mozart, but in contrast to Kraus’s symphony, his Symphony No.5 is light and joyfully elegant. Purchase tickets here. 

Oct 24 7:00: New Adventures in Sound Art and Charles Street Video. Adeva (version000_01): Electronic Music and Video Performance by Debashis Sinha. Debashis Sinha’s explorations of how his Bengali heritage can manifest through the toolset of contemporary electronic music continues with this livestream performance. This is a project started in 2019 at the MUTEK JP AI Music Lab, where Sinha began exploring machine learning and AI and their applications in sound, and where he realized their use as a dramaturgical tool in the story-based explorations and re-imaginings of Hindu myth he has been creating for nearly two decades. The text and sound world of the Vedas (Hindu scriptures) is subjected to machine learning algorithms and processes to create content that lies just beyond the reach of human comprehension — a piecing together of half-understood and half-perceived bits of wisdom that is reconstructed by Sinha, and the listener in the moment of performance. The performance will be live-streamed over YouTube with Q&A discussion taking place afterwards on the Whereby platform. It is a co-presentation of New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) and Charles Street Video. Online location issued after Advance Registration here.

Oct 25 2:00: TD Markham Jazz Festival. Ready. Set. Connect. Concert #2. Spy Jazz with June Garber + Irene Torres, hosted by Jaymz Bee and featuring an exceptional band – Eric St. Laurent (guitars) George Koller (basses), Great Bob Scott (drums and percussion), Attila Fias (keyboards) and Alison Young (saxes). Tune in here prior to each concert.

NEW!! Oct 26 12:15: Music Mondays. Folk & Song. Works by Brahms, Rachmaninoff, Dvořák, Gershwin and others. Beth Silver, cello; Jenna Richards, piano. Visit here.  

Oct 26 7:30: Art of Time Ensemble/Toronto International Festival of Authors. The Poem/The Song. Available online until Thursday, October 29th, 7:30pm. The Poem/The Song presents music inspired by poetry in a variety of contrasting musical settings. Highlights include two-time Booker Prize-winning author Margaret Atwood reading her poem Thriller Suite accompanied by an original musical composition from Canadian composer Dan Parr, Franz Liszt's musical impression of Petrarch's Sonnets, music from the worldwide smash-hit Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats, which was inspired by the poetry of T.S. Eliot, a fantastical setting of Walt Whitman by composer George Crumb and songs by Leonard Cohen. Performers include singers Thom Allison, Gregory Hoskins and Carla Huhtanen. RSVP here.

NEW!! Oct 28 7:00 Opera Atelier. Something Rich and Strange. A fully-staged new creation featuring theatre music that explores the realms of dreams, visions and the supernatural. Featuring soprano Measha Brueggergosman, tenor Colin Ainsworth, and more. With Artists of Atelier Ballet and musicians from Tafelmusik led by Music Director Elisa Citterio. Music by Handel, Purcell and Lully. Livestreamed from Koerner Hall, TELUS Centre. $25. Buy livestream tickets here.

Oct 30 12 noon: Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra. SPOGreatMusic Podcast S41E04 - Beethoven: The Man and His Chamber Music - Part 1. Featuring interviews with special guests. Host: Dr. Daniel Mehdizadeh. Find links and further information here.

NEW!! Oct 30 8:00: The Piano Lunaire. Lunaire Live IV: Blue Moon Gala. Two-piano recital celebrating the rare Blue Moon. Streamed live from Toronto in collaboration with Yamaha Canada. Stephen Runge & Adam Sherkin, pianos. Adams: Hallelujah Junction; Sherkin: Ink from the Shield (2020 world premiere); Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances. $20 suggested donation. For more information, visit here.

NEW!! Nov 01 7:00: Canzona Chamber Players. Carina Canonica, David Gazille & Jonathan Krehm, Clarinet Duo / Trio. See the concert here. In lieu of a concert ticket, donations to the St. Michael’s Hospital Foundation COVID-19 Courage Fund, in Memory of Elizabeth Krehm, can be made here.

Nov 06 12 noon: Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra. SPO Music Performance S41E03 - Beethoven: The Man and His Chamber Music - Part 1. New music performances by members and friends of the SPO. Full performance details and links can be found here.

NEW!! Nov 06 8:00: Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony. KWS Goes Online: Royal Wood with the KWS. Evan Mitchell, conductor; Royal Wood, vocals/piano/guitar; Steve Zsirai, electric bass; Mark Mariash, drum set; Royal Wood, one of Canada’s best contemporary singer/songwriters, joins the KWS performing some of his greatest hits from across many of his albums. Renowned for his intimate and compelling performances, Royal Wood’s music is effortlessly melodic with lyrically astute perspectives on life and love, making for a seamless pairing with the orchestra. Purchase tickets here.

NEW!! Nov 15 7:00: Canzona Chamber Players. Casba Kosco & Theresa Rudolph, Violin / Viola Duo. See the concert here. In lieu of a concert ticket, donations to the St. Michael’s Hospital Foundation COVID-19 Courage Fund, in Memory of Elizabeth Krehm, can be made here.

Nov 29 2:00: TD Markham Jazz Festival. Ready. Set. Connect. Concert #3. Donovan Locke brings his rich voice and great spirit to an afternoon of memorable standards and more. Tune in here prior to each concert.

NEW!! Nov 29 7:00: Canzona Chamber Players. Rachel Mercer & Yehonathan Berrick, Violin / Cello Duo. See the concert here. In lieu of a concert ticket, donations to the St. Michael’s Hospital Foundation COVID-19 Courage Fund, in Memory of Elizabeth Krehm, can be made here.

CONTINUING EVENTS

Arts@Home. A vibrant hub connecting Torontonians to arts and culture. Designed to strengthen personal and societal resilience through the arts. Visit here to learn more about this exciting collaborative initiative.

Arraymusic. Living Room Talk: Ryan Driver. This week is a little bit different as we are talking with singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist/all-around-brilliant-dude Ryan Driver. We speak a bit about his history with Arraymusic and long-time collaboration with Martin Arnold, the Street Sweeper Bristle Bass, and more. You can find the talk here.

Kevin Barrett. Live from Lockdown. Kevin Barrett does a live-streamed set of solo guitar tunes, coming directly from lockdown in his studio in Kensington Market, Toronto. Tune in to Kevin's Facebook page on Friday here. If you can't join live, the video will be available afterwards on Kevin's page with each week's episode archived on his YouTube channel here.

Canadian Brass: welcomes friends around their virtual fireplace for learning and laughs. All events take place here.

Classical Jukebox Founded as a response to the days of COVID-19 social separation, this site is designed to provide you the ability to sing and perform your favorite classical pieces from the comfort of your own home, with accompaniments by organ and piano accompanist, Matthew Larkin. In addition, Classical Jukebox offers another service - assisting with the creation of Virtual Choirs and virtual choir videos for those missing that collaborative and artistic outlet in their lives. Further information can be found here.

NEW!! Esprit Orchestra. Filmbites. The first series of Filmbites clips are from Larry Weinstein's 1989 film For the Whales, in which writers, musicians, and artists celebrate the majestic whale. The film explores the theme of preserving our environment through artistic and musical meditations. Watch this short introductory video with composer Alexina Louie by clicking here, then click here to watch the film.

Esprit Orchestra. Soundbites. The latest Soundbite in our series is an excerpt from the World Premiere performance of Quinn Jacobs' Music About Music. This concert is conducted by Eugene Astapov and was performed by Esprit Orchestra in Trinity St. Paul's Centre on April 5, 2019. Listen here. Enjoy a conversation with Quinn Jacobs and Alex Pauk here.

Kingston Symphony. Finale of Beethoven’s Third Symphony (Eroica). Forty members of the orchestra perform the finale of the Eroica, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 while in isolation in their homes. To view the virtual performance, please click here. For more information on the Kingston Symphony, please visit here.

Koerner Hall. Concerts from Home.There are more than 25 classical, jazz, and roots music concerts currently available online. Check out the available items here.

NEW!! New Music Concerts. Sonic Grace: An NMC Audio Diary. Listen to David Hetherington perform Carter's Figment recorded live with New Music Concerts at the Music Gallery on Dec. 18, 2007, by clicking here.

Orchestre Métropolitain. Live stream of Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 1-8. On the websites of Orchestre Métropolitain and Bourgie Hall over the course of the summer of 2020. Visit here and here.

Ottawa Chamberfest. Chamber Chats: At Home / Chez vous. Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2pm. Hosted by celebrated broadcaster/writer Eric Friesen. Interactive episodes combine chat with pre-recorded and live performances and feature guest artists and lecturers from all over the world. For information: 613-234-8008. Visit the website here.

Recollectiv: Currently holding on-line meetings. A unique musical group made up of people affected by memory challenges caused by illness (such as dementia) or brain injury (stroke, PTSD, etc.) and their care partners. Volunteers of all ages also form part of the band, making this a positive intergenerational experience for all. Participation is free with pre-registration. Contact info@recollectiv.ca for meeting times, information and registration.

Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts. a•P•art {of} performance series, every Thursday at 7:30pm here.

NEW!! Tafelmusik. Baroque for Baby. Available Oct 16. A kid-friendly playlist curated by violinist and mother of two, Cristina Zacharias. Selections from renowned Tafelmusik recordings include music by Telemann, Purcell, Lully, Vivaldi, Handel, Monteverdi, Rameau, Merula, Sweelink, and Marais. Zacharias’s choices balance enlivening, energetic music that encourages children to move and dance with calming, quieter pieces for bedtime. More information is available here.

NEW!! TD Toronto Jazz Festival. Online Premiere. Measha Brueggergosman, soprano; Lennie Gallant, guitar. The internationally acclaimed opera singer and concert artist co-wrote "Champions" with Lennie Gallant. The concert is available here.

Toronto Consort. Explorer: Discovering the World of Early Music. Explorer is a blog for the curious; a place of learning, sharing, and community. This all-new offering will present an assortment of curated content in a range of formats, like original short- or long-form articles, original video and audio recordings, and educational content on relevant topics relating to Early Music, history, and world music, as they relate our beloved repertoire. Visit here for further information.

Toronto Operetta Theatre. An archival video of Toronto Operetta Theatre's production of Jacinto Guerrero's Los Gavilanes (The Sparrow Hawks) performed in April 2016 at the Jane Mallett Theatre, St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, Toronto.This zarzuela tells the story of Juan, who returns to his native village in Spain from Peru as a wealthy man, at last worthy of marriage to his childhood sweetheart, Adriana. Separated for over twenty years, Adriana is unforgiving. In his absence, Adriana had married and is now a widow with a daughter, Rosaura. Adriana’s mother Leontina proposes that Juan marry Rosaura scandalizing the village. Juan is hesitant to complicate the situation especially as Rosaura is known to be in love with a young villager called Gustavo. This production features Guillermo Silva-Marin and some of Canada's most amazing voices to dazzle your ears and eyes. Watch scenes here.

VOICEBOX|Opera in Concert. Archival Video Project: Fierabras by Franz Schubert. Schubert’s opera had its Canadian premiere in 2019. If you missed our full production, please take a look at our gift to you with this video of excerpts featuring an amazing cast under the masterful conducting of Kevin Mallon and the Aradia Ensemble. It is a rare opera at its highest degree of excellence in performance. In the midst of wars between the Frankish Christians and Spanish Moors of the late 700s, conflicts are brought to an end with the intercession of a younger generation, where love conquers all. See the video here.

WORKSHOPS

Oct 4 1:30: Toronto Early Music Players Organization (TEMPO). Online Workshop. Lawrence Lipnik will be leading our October event. Lawrence has performed with many acclaimed early music ensembles from ARTEK and Anonymous 4 to Piffaro and the Waverly Consort, and is a founding member of the viol consort Parthenia and vocal ensemble Lionheart. He teaches recorder and viol on Amherst Early Music Online. The workshop continues until 3:00pm. Please visit the TEMPO website here for more information on how to participate online.

To submit relevant listings click here.

NOTE: All times are Eastern Time unless otherwise noted.

DAILY LISTINGS

NEW!! Sep 18 12 noon: Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra. SPOGreatMusic Podcast S41E01. Featuring interviews with Ronald Royer (SPO), William Rowson (SSO), Derek Spooner (Scarborough Arts), and Tamar Ilana (FabCollab). Host: Dr. Daniel Mehdizadeh. Visit the SPO’s website here for links.

NEW!! Sep 19 7:00: Guitar Society of Toronto. Online Streamed Concert: Tim Beattie, Guitar. Registration is required in advance via Eventbrite. Suggested donation (can be made during registration): $20 per person. Visit the Guitar Society of Toronto’s website here for more information.

Sep 20 2:00: TD Niagara Jazz Festival. LIVEstream.LOVE.WORLD Series #06 with Badié. Live from Paris. Interested but can't attend? All our livestreamed performances are available through our Facebook page and YouTube channel. Enjoy this live streamed performance with our compliments. Donations in support of our Festival and our artists are gratefully accepted here.

NEW!! Sep 21 12:15: Music Mondays. Duo Concertante. Duo Concertante (Nancy Dahn, violin and Timothy Steeves, piano) is a Juno-winning violin-piano team from Atlantic Canada that has toured all over the world and produced 11 award-winning CD's. They will be performing works by Bach, Beethoven, Smetana and premiering new works by Carmen Braden and Ian Cusson. The stream and full program notes will be available here.

NEW!! Sep 21 2:00: Temple Sinai. Musical Mondays. Musical and artistic creativity have been integral parts of the Temple Sinai experience since the beginning. This series gives our members an opportunity to meet some of the talented artists from our Temple family who have contributed in the past and will join us for a new Musical Mondays tradition! Join us for an interview with our Musical Legacy Award winner Dramatic Soprano Jaclyn Grossman (rebroadcast). For more information visit our website here.

Sep 23 7:00: Confluence Concerts. Something to Live For: A Billy Strayhorn Celebration. A range of works by the great 20th-century composer and jazz pianist Billy Strayhorn, best known for his long-standing collaboration with Duke Ellington. Larry Beckwith, voice; Alexa Belgrade, piano; Andrew Downing, cello and arrangements; Leighton Harrell, bass; Drew Jurecka, violin; Marion Newman, voice; Patricia O’Callaghan, voice; Alex Samaras, voice; Suba Sankaran, voice. Available online on Confluence Concerts’ YouTube channel. For information call 416-786-2509. All Confluence Online Concerts are offered free of charge and will remain online for two weeks after the premiere on YouTube. All donations are gratefully received. This concert is available until Oct 7. Pre-concert chat at 6:30pm.

NEW!! Sep 27 2:00: TD Markham Jazz Festival. Ready. Set. Connect. Concert #1. Trumpet phenom Alexis Baro kicks off our streamed series with a quintet of award-winning talent! Tune in here prior to each concert.

NEW!! Canzona Chamber Players. George Koller: Livestreamed Solo Recital. A Benefit For St. Michael's COVID-19 Courage Fund. See the concert here. In lieu of a concert ticket, donations to the St. Michael’s Hospital Foundation COVID-19 Courage Fund, in Memory of Elizabeth Krehm, can be made here.

Oct 01 8:00: The Pierrot Lunaire. Lunaire Live III: The Harvest Moon. Pianist Adam Sherkin performs music by Chopin: Scherzo No.1 in b, Op. 20; Sersam: Jonatan Medusa (2014); Hannah Kendal: Processional (2018); Charlotte Bray: Bring Me All Your Dreams (2019); Adam Sherkin: Tagish Fires, Op. 21. $20 suggested donation. For more information, visit here.

Oct 01 8:00: Tafelmusik. Mozart Together. Following many months of isolation and remote music making, the musicians of Tafelmusik gather for an emotional return to the concert stage. Filmed at Koerner Hall, TELUS Centre, this opening program of the reimagined 2020/21 season is devoted to chamber music originally intended to be played in private homes and salon gatherings among friends and family. Scored for two to eight instruments, these intimate works — almost all of them new to our musicians — capture the immediacy and connection we’ve all been craving. On display will be a more playful side of titans like Mozart, Beethoven, and Boccherini, including a movement from Mozart’s famous Sinfonia concertante in E-flat Major in an unusual arrangement for six string instruments, along with music by Michael Haydn, Družeckŷ, Sperger, and Spohr — classical composers eclipsed by these giants. An unforgettable homecoming. For more information, visit here.

Oct 02 12 noon: Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra. SPOGreatMusic Podcast: Episode 2 - Plagues, Pandemics, and Musicians.  Featuring interviews with special guests. Host: Dr. Daniel Mehdizadeh. For links, visit here.

NEW!! Oct 02 7:30: Stockey Centre/Festival of the Sound. Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue Live. Featuring George Gershwin’s phenomenal Rhapsody in Blue among many other incredible pieces, all performed by a number of our most beloved Festival Artists such as Jamie Parker, Guy Few, Mark Fewer, and James Campbell. This concert is available both in person and virtually. LIVE Concert Tickets: $42.95 + HST. Available only at the Stockey Centre Box Office. Limited tickets available for purchase in person (2 Bay Street) or by phone at 1-877-746-4466. VIRTUAL/LIVESTREAM Concert Tickets: $22.95 + HST. Available only at the Festival Box Office. Unlimited tickets available for purchase online here,  in person (1 Avenue Road), or by phone at 1-866-866-364-0061. Online virtual ticket purchases will be acknowledged within 24 hours via confirmation email.

Oct 02 7:30: The Upper Canada Choristers. Inti Ukana: A Latin American Tapestry. A live-streamed performance on With conductor Laurie Evan Fraser, pianist Hye Won Cecilia Lee, Cantemos Latin ensemble, M.C. Laura Fernandez; guest artists including Bernardo Padron. Visit here or call 416-256-0510 or email info@uppercanadachoristers.org.

NEW!! Oct 04 2:00: TD Niagara Jazz Festival. LIVEstream.LOVE.WORLD Series #07 with Laura Fernandez. Interested but can't attend? ALL our livestreamed performances are available at our Facebook page and our YouTube channel. Enjoy this performance with our compliments. Donations in support of our Festival and our artists are gratefully accepted here. See our full lineup here.

Oct 07 8:00: Arraymusic. Livestream Concert with Ryan Driver and The Titillators. Find the livestream here.

NEW!! Oct 08 8:00: Freesound/The Canadian Music Centre. Freesound 03. Kicking off our 2020-21 season online! We're very excited to be partnering with the Canadian Music Centre to present a concert of fantastic works for clarinet, violin, and piano by Canadian composers Jason Doell and Anna Höstman. Available on the CMC Website Stream here.

NEW!! Oct 09 12:00 noon: Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra. SPOGreatMusic Performance S41E01. New music performances by members and friends of the SPO. Full performance details are available here.

NEW!! Oct 09 7:00: TD Niagara Jazz Festival. LIVEstream.LOVE.JAZZ Series #41 with Bill Mays. Interested but can't attend? ALL our livestreamed performances are available at our Facebook page and our YouTube channel. Enjoy this performance with our compliments. Donations in support of our Festival and our artists are gratefully accepted here. See our full LIVEstream.LOVE.WORLD.Series Lineup here.

NEW!! Oct 10 8:00: Toronto Mendelssohn Choir. Kannamma: A Concert of Thanksgiving. From Bach to the Beatles, from visual arts to dance to drumming to singing this concert of thanksgiving brings together an amazing group of artists in a program of choral music and more that evocatively expresses gratitude. TMC Associate Conductor Simon Rivard and Guest Curator Suba Sankaran have put together a diverse program that brings together songs of thanks, gratitude and love, spanning several centuries, multiple genres and disciplines that cross cultures. Works will include European classical to jazz to pop to South Indian Karnatak music, to refreshing original compositions, complemented by visual arts and dance performance. Program is free to view but please consider a donation in support of our online programming during the pandemic. Enjoy the concert here.

Oct 16 12 noon: Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra. SPOGreatMusic Podcast: Episode 3 - Socially Distanced: Music for a Solo Instrument: J.S. Bach Plus.. Featuring interviews with special guests. Host: Dr. Daniel Mehdizadeh. Find links and further information at our website here.

NEW!! Oct 17 7:00: New Adventures in Sound Art/Charles Street Video. Endosymbiosis: Live Electronic Music Performance with Liquid Light Imagery by Robert Fantinatto. A video and improvised electronic music performance which utilizes a variation on the technique of Liquid Light by replacing the overhead projector with a 4K video camera. The improvised music performed by Fantinatto uses a customized modular synthesizer along with slowed-down water sounds. The performance will be live-streamed over YouTube with Q&A discussion taking place afterwards on the Whereby platform. Online Location issued after Advance Registration at here.

NEW!! Oct 18 2:00: TD Niagara Jazz Festival. LIVEstream.LOVE.WORLD Series #09 with Juneyt. Interested but can't attend? ALL our livestreamed performances are available at our Facebook page and our YouTube channel. Enjoy this performance with our compliments. Donations in support of our Festival and our artists are gratefully accepted here. See our full lineup here.

NEW!! Oct 22 8:00: Tafelmusik. Passions of the Soul. A livestreamed event curated and directed by Elisa Citterio. Bliss, grief, delight: experience a kaleidoscope of emotions with 18th-century music that will open your heart and mind. This concert is a microcosm of our season theme, “Passions of the Soul.” In their quest to awe and inspire, 18th-century composers strove to describe the desires of the soul and touch the hearts of listeners with poignant and captivating music. Works featured include Lalande’s Chaconne (inspired by the magnificent fountains of Versailles); Locatelli’s Sinfonia Funebre, and Telemann’s suite La Bourse, an irreverent depiction of the roller-coaster of emotions experienced by investors in the stock market. Single ticket purchasers will be able to re-access the concert for a full 24 hours after the original broadcast time. You can revisit your ticket link, contained in your confirmation email, to watch until October 23, 2020 at 7:59pm. $30 + service fees. Box Office: 1-833-964-6337. Visit our website here.

NEW!! Oct 23 12 noon: Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra. SPO Music Performance S41E02. New music performances by members and friends of the SPO. Full performance details and links can be found here. Today's theme: Socially Distanced: Music for a Solo Instrument, J.S. Bach Plus.

NEW!! Oct 23 7:00: TD Niagara Jazz Festival. LIVEstream.LOVE.JAZZ Series #43 with Jay Reed. Interested but can't attend? ALL our livestreamed performances are available at our Facebook page and our YouTube channel. Enjoy this performance with our compliments. Donations in support of our Festival and our artists are gratefully accepted here. See our full lineup here.

NEW!! Oct 24 7:00: New Adventures in Sound Art and Charles Street Video. Adeva (version000_01): Electronic Music and Video Performance by Debashis Sinha. Debashis Sinha’s explorations of how his Bengali heritage can manifest through the toolset of contemporary electronic music continues with this livestream performance. This is a project started in 2019 at the MUTEK JP AI Music Lab, where Sinha began exploring machine learning and AI and their applications in sound, and where he realized their use as a dramaturgical tool in the story-based explorations and re-imaginings of Hindu myth he has been creating for nearly two decades. The text and sound world of the Vedas (Hindu scriptures) is subjected to machine learning algorithms and processes to create content that lies just beyond the reach of human comprehension — a piecing together of half-understood and half-perceived bits of wisdom that is reconstructed by Sinha, and the listener in the moment of performance. The performance will be live-streamed over YouTube with Q&A discussion taking place afterwards on the Whereby platform. It is a co-presentation of New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) and Charles Street Video. Online location issued after Advance Registration here.

NEW!! Oct 25 2:00: TD Markham Jazz Festival. Ready. Set. Connect. Concert #2. Spy Jazz with June Garber + Irene Torres, hosted by Jaymz Bee and featuring an exceptional band – Eric St. Laurent (guitars) George Koller (basses), Great Bob Scott (drums and percussion), Attila Fias (keyboards) and Alison Young (saxes). Tune in here prior to each concert.

NEW!! Oct 26 7:30: Art of Time Ensemble/Toronto International Festival of Authors. The Poem/The Song. Available online until Thursday, October 29th, 7:30pm. The Poem/The Song presents music inspired by poetry in a variety of contrasting musical settings. Highlights include two-time Booker Prize-winning author Margaret Atwood reading her poem Thriller Suite accompanied by an original musical composition from Canadian composer Dan Parr, Franz Liszt's musical impression of Petrarch's Sonnets, music from the worldwide smash-hit Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats, which was inspired by the poetry of T.S. Eliot, a fantastical setting of Walt Whitman by composer George Crumb and songs by Leonard Cohen. Performers include singers Thom Allison, Gregory Hoskins and Carla Huhtanen. RSVP here.

Oct 30 12 noon: Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra. SPOGreatMusic Podcast S41E04 - Beethoven: The Man and His Chamber Music - Part 1. Featuring interviews with special guests. Host: Dr. Daniel Mehdizadeh. Find links and further information here.

NEW!! Nov 06 12 noon: Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra. SPO Music Performance S41E03 - Beethoven: The Man and His Chamber Music - Part 1. New music performances by members and friends of the SPO. Full performance details and links can be found here.

NEW!! Nov 29 2:00: TD Markham Jazz Festival. Ready. Set. Connect. Concert #3. Donovan Locke brings his rich voice and great spirit to an afternoon of memorable standards and more. Tune in here prior to each concert. 

COMPETITIONS

NEW!! International Songwriting Competition (ISC).  ISC gives away more than $150,000 in cash and prizes, including a Grand Prize of $25,000 cash plus additional merchandise and services. Both amateur and professional songwriters worldwide are eligible to enter. Entrants may submit songs in any of the following categories: AAA (Adult Album Alternative); AC (Adult Contemporary); Americana; Blues; Children's Music; Christian; Comedy/Novelty; Country; EDM (Electronic Dance Music); Folk/Singer-Songwriter; Instrumental; Jazz; Latin Music; Lyrics Only; Music Video; Performance; Pop/Top 40, R&B/Hip-Hop; Rock; Teen; Unpublished; Unsigned Only; and World Music. Deadline is Sep 23, 2020. Enter here.

CONTINUING EVENTS

Arts@Home. A vibrant hub connecting Torontonians to arts and culture. Designed to strengthen personal and societal resilience through the arts. Visit here to learn more about this exciting collaborative initiative.

NEW!! Arraymusic. Living Room Talk: Ryan Driver. This week is a little bit different as we are talking with singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist/all-around-brilliant-dude Ryan Driver. We speak a bit about his history with Arraymusic and long-time collaboration with Martin Arnold, the Street Sweeper Bristle Bass, and more. You can find the talk here.

Kevin Barrett. Live from Lockdown. Kevin Barrett does a live-streamed set of solo guitar tunes, coming directly from lockdown in his studio in Kensington Market, Toronto. Tune in to Kevin's Facebook page on Friday here. If you can't join live, the video will be available afterwards on Kevin's page with each week's episode archived on his YouTube channel here.

Canadian Brass: welcomes friends around their virtual fireplace for learning and laughs. All events take place here.

Classical Jukebox Founded as a response to the days of COVID-19 social separation, this site is designed to provide you the ability to sing and perform your favorite classical pieces from the comfort of your own home, with accompaniments by organ and piano accompanist, Matthew Larkin. In addition, Classical Jukebox offers another service - assisting with the creation of Virtual Choirs and virtual choir videos for those missing that collaborative and artistic outlet in their lives. Further information can be found here.

Esprit Orchestra. Soundbites. The latest Soundbite in our series is an excerpt from the World Premiere performance of Quinn Jacobs' Music About Music. This concert is conducted by Eugene Astapov and was performed by Esprit Orchestra in Trinity St. Paul's Centre on April 5, 2019. Listen here. Enjoy a conversation with Quinn Jacobs and Alex Pauk here.

Kingston Symphony. Finale of Beethoven’s Third Symphony (Eroica). Forty members of the orchestra perform the finale of the Eroica, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 while in isolation in their homes. To view the virtual performance, please click here. For more information on the Kingston Symphony, please visit here.

Koerner Hall. Concerts from Home.There are more than 25 classical, jazz, and roots music concerts currently available online. Check out the available items here.

Danny Michel. Live From Lockdown Sundays. A weekly live, interactive online concert on Sundays at 3pm, on ZOOM from his studio in the woods. Unlike Facebook live, fans can see each other, interact, chat, play along & be a part of the show. Buy a ticket for $7.00, get a private link in your email and join the party on Zoom (free download available) here.

Orchestre Métropolitain. Live stream of Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 1-8. On the websites of Orchestre Métropolitain and Bourgie Hall over the course of the summer of 2020. Visit here and here.

Ottawa Chamberfest. Chamber Chats: At Home / Chez vous. Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2pm. Hosted by celebrated broadcaster/writer Eric Friesen. Interactive episodes combine chat with pre-recorded and live performances and feature guest artists and lecturers from all over the world. For information: 613-234-8008. Visit the website here.

Recollectiv: Currently holding on-line meetings. A unique musical group made up of people affected by memory challenges caused by illness (such as dementia) or brain injury (stroke, PTSD, etc.) and their care partners. Volunteers of all ages also form part of the band, making this a positive intergenerational experience for all. Participation is free with pre-registration. Contact info@recollectiv.ca for meeting times, information and registration.

Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts. a•P•art {of} performance series, every Thursday at 7:30pm here.

Toronto Consort. Explorer: Discovering the World of Early Music. Explorer is a blog for the curious; a place of learning, sharing, and community. This all-new offering will present an assortment of curated content in a range of formats, like original short- or long-form articles, original video and audio recordings, and educational content on relevant topics relating to Early Music, history, and world music, as they relate our beloved repertoire. Visit here for further information.

Toronto Operetta Theatre. An archival video of Toronto Operetta Theatre's production of Jacinto Guerrero's Los Gavilanes (The Sparrow Hawks) performed in April 2016 at the Jane Mallett Theatre, St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, Toronto.This zarzuela tells the story of Juan, who returns to his native village in Spain from Peru as a wealthy man, at last worthy of marriage to his childhood sweetheart, Adriana. Separated for over twenty years, Adriana is unforgiving. In his absence, Adriana had married and is now a widow with a daughter, Rosaura. Adriana’s mother Leontina proposes that Juan marry Rosaura scandalizing the village. Juan is hesitant to complicate the situation especially as Rosaura is known to be in love with a young villager called Gustavo. This production features Guillermo Silva-Marin and some of Canada's most amazing voices to dazzle your ears and eyes. Watch scenes here.

VOICEBOX|Opera in Concert. Archival Video Project: Fierabras by Franz Schubert. Schubert’s opera had its Canadian premiere in 2019. If you missed our full production, please take a look at our gift to you with this video of excerpts featuring an amazing cast under the masterful conducting of Kevin Mallon and the Aradia Ensemble. It is a rare opera at its highest degree of excellence in performance. In the midst of wars between the Frankish Christians and Spanish Moors of the late 700s, conflicts are brought to an end with the intercession of a younger generation, where love conquers all. See the video here.

WORKSHOPS

Oct 4 1:30: Toronto Early Music Players Organization (TEMPO). Online Workshop. Lawrence Lipnik will be leading our October event. Lawrence has performed with many acclaimed early music ensembles from ARTEK and Anonymous 4 to Piffaro and the Waverly Consort, and is a founding member of the viol consort Parthenia and vocal ensemble Lionheart. He teaches recorder and viol on Amherst Early Music Online. The workshop continues until 3:00pm. Please visit the TEMPO website here for more information on how to participate online.

To submit relevant listings click here.

NOTE: All times are Eastern Time unless otherwise noted.

NEW THIS WEEK (SEP 11-17)

NEW!! Music Mondays. Tanya Willis Quartet. Sep 14 at 12:15pm. Tanya Wills is a Toronto-based jazz singer and with her Quartet she brings her sensual and evocative sound to the stage. Featuring Bill Bridges, guitar; Ron Johnston, bass; and Jordan Klapman, piano. Tanya’s repertoire ranges from European Cabaret, to the Great American Songbook to contemporary pieces, including original works. The stream and full program notes are available here.

NEW!! A Temple Sinai Program. Musical Mondays Hosted by David Eisner. Sep 14 at 2pm. Rebroadcast of a Musical Mondays interview with Avery Saltzman and David Eisner interview by Cantor Charles Osborne. For more information, visit us online Visit here for more information, e-mail us at programs@templesinai.net, or call the Temple Office at 416-487-4161.

NEW!! Hugh’s Room. Jeff Daniels Online & Unplugged. Sep 16 at 7pm. Tickets are $20 and can be purchased here. Once you purchase a ticket, you'll receive a link to the show. Jeff encourages all ticket buyers to email questions to him for a Q and A following the performance. Listen to Jeff's poignant track, Hard to Hear The Angels Sing, which feels more striking now than when performed on our stage in 2018 here.

COMING SOON

NEW!! Confluence Concerts. Something to Live For: A Billy Strayhorn Celebration. Sep 23 at 7pm. A range of works by the great 20th-century composer and jazz pianist Billy Strayhorn, best known for his long-standing collaboration with Duke Ellington. Larry Beckwith, voice; Alexa Belgrade, piano; Andrew Downing, cello and arrangements; Leighton Harrell, bass; Drew Jurecka, violin; Marion Newman, voice; Patricia O’Callaghan, voice; Alex Samaras, voice; Suba Sankaran, voice. Available online on Confluence Concerts’ YouTube channel. For information call 416-786-2509. All Confluence Online Concerts are offered free of charge and will remain online for two weeks after the premiere on YouTube. All donations are gratefully received. This concert is available until Oct 7.

NEW!! TD Niagara Jazz Festival. LIVEstream.LOVE.WORLD Series #06 with Badié. Sep 20 at 2pm. Live from Paris. Interested but can't attend? All our livestreamed performances are available through our Facebook page and YouTube channel. Enjoy this live streamed performance with our compliments. Donations in support of our Festival and our artists are gratefully accepted here.

The Pierrot Lunaire. Lunaire Live III: The Harvest Moon. Oct 1 at 8pm. Pianist Adam Sherkin performs music by Chopin: Scherzo No.1 in b, Op. 20; Sersam: Jonatan Medusa (2014); Hannah Kendal: Processional (2018); Charlotte Bray: Bring Me All Your Dreams (2019); Adam Sherkin: Tagish Fires, Op. 21. $20 suggested donation. Please visit here for more information.

Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra. SPOGreatMusic Podcast - Episode 1. Sep 18 at 12 noon. Featuring interviews with Ronald Royer (SPO), William Rowson (SSO), Derek Spooner (Scarborough Arts), and Tamar Ilana (FabCollab). Host: Dr. Daniel Mehdizadeh. Find updated information and themes on our website, www.spo.ca.

Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra. SPOGreatMusic Podcast: Episode 2 - Plagues, Pandemics, and Musicians. Oct 2 at 12 noon. Featuring interviews with special guests. Host: Dr. Daniel Mehdizadeh. Find updated information and themes on our website, www.spo.ca.

Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra. SPOGreatMusic Podcast: Episode 3 - Socially Distanced: Music for a Solo Instrument: J.S. Bach Plus. Oct 16 & 23 at 12 noon. Featuring interviews with special guests. Host: Dr. Daniel Mehdizadeh. Find updated information and themes on our website, www.spo.ca.

Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra. SPOGreatMusic Podcast: Episode 4 - Beethoven: The Man and His Chamber Music - Part 1. Oct 30 & Nov 6 at 12 noon. Featuring interviews with special guests. Host: Dr. Daniel Mehdizadeh. Find updated information and themes on our website, www.spo.ca.

Tafelmusik. Mozart Together. Oct 1 at 8pm. Following many months of isolation and remote music making, the musicians of Tafelmusik gather for an emotional return to the concert stage. Filmed at Koerner Hall, TELUS Centre, this opening program of the reimagined 2020/21 season is devoted to chamber music originally intended to be played in private homes and salon gatherings among friends and family. Scored for two to eight instruments, these intimate works — almost all of them new to our musicians — capture the immediacy and connection we’ve all been craving. On display will be a more playful side of titans like Mozart, Beethoven, and Boccherini, including a movement from Mozart’s famous Sinfonia concertante in E-flat Major in an unusual arrangement for six string instruments, along with music by Michael Haydn, Družeckŷ, Sperger, and Spohr — classical composers eclipsed by these giants. An unforgettable homecoming. For more information, visit here.

The Upper Canada Choristers. Inti Ukana: A Latin American Tapestry. A live-streamed performance on Oct 2 at 7:30pm. With conductor Laurie Evan Fraser, pianist Hye Won Cecilia Lee, Cantemos Latin ensemble, M.C. Laura Fernandez; guest artists including Bernardo Padron. Visit here or call 416-256-0510 or email info@uppercanadachoristers.org.

CONTINUING

Arts@Home. A vibrant hub connecting Torontonians to arts and culture. Designed to strengthen personal and societal resilience through the arts. Visit here to learn more about this exciting collaborative initiative.

Kevin Barrett. Live from Lockdown. Kevin Barrett does a live-streamed set of solo guitar tunes, coming directly from lockdown in his studio in Kensington Market, Toronto. Tune in to Kevin's Facebook page on Friday here If you can't join live, the video will be available afterwards on Kevin's page with each week's episode is archived on his YouTube channel here.

Canadian Brass: welcomes friends around their virtual fireplace for learning and laughs. All events take place here.

Classical Jukebox Founded as a response to the days of COVID-19 social separation, this site is designed to provide you the ability to sing and perform your favorite classical pieces from the comfort of your own home, with accompaniments by organ and piano accompanist, Matthew Larkin. In addition, Classical Jukebox offers another service - assisting with the creation of Virtual Choirs and virtual choir videos for those missing that collaborative and artistic outlet in their lives. Further information can be found here.

Esprit Orchestra. Soundbites. The latest Soundbite in our series is an excerpt from the World Premiere performance of Quinn Jacobs' Music About Music. This concert is conducted by Eugene Astapov and was performed by Esprit Orchestra in Trinity St. Paul's Centre on April 5, 2019. Listen here. Enjoy a conversation with Quinn Jacobs and Alex Pauk here.

Harbourfront Centre. Summer Music in the Garden at Home. Every Sunday at 4pm and Thursday at 7pm. Just as our gardens come to life again, so too does the music of Toronto. Harbourfront Centre’s Summer Music in the Garden series is virtual this year, bringing the sounds of the Toronto Music Garden right to your home. Featuring artists from Ontario, Quebec and around the world. Music by Bach, Ravel, Borodin and Telemann are accompanied by meditative raags and ancient lute techniques. Sign up for reminders at harbourfront.live to remain up to date on concerts and even a few surprises. For information 905-973-4000 or visit here.

Kingston Symphony. Finale of Beethoven’s Third Symphony (Eroica). Forty members of the orchestra perform the finale of the Eroica, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 while in isolation in their homes. To view the virtual performance, please click here. For more information on the Kingston Symphony, please visit here.

Koerner Hall. Concerts from Home.There are more than 25 classical, jazz, and roots music concerts currently available online. Check out the available items here.

Danny Michel. Live From Lockdown Sundays. A weekly live, interactive online concert on Sundays at 3pm, on ZOOM from his studio in the woods. Unlike Facebook live, fans can see each other, interact, chat, play along & be a part of the show. Buy a ticket for $7.00, get a private link in your email and join the party on Zoom (free download available) here.

Orchestre Métropolitain. Live stream of Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 1-8. On the websites of Orchestre Métropolitain and Bourgie Hall over the course of the summer of 2020. Visit here and here.

Ottawa Chamberfest. Chamber Chats: At Home / Chez vous. Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2pm. Hosted by celebrated broadcaster/writer Eric Friesen. Interactive episodes combine chat with pre-recorded and live performances and feature guest artists and lecturers from all over the world. For information: 613-234-8008. Visit the website here.

Recollectiv: Currently holding on-line meetings. A unique musical group made up of people affected by memory challenges caused by illness (such as dementia) or brain injury (stroke, PTSD, etc.) and their care partners. Volunteers of all ages also form part of the band, making this a positive intergenerational experience for all. Participation is free with pre-registration. Contact info@recollectiv.ca for meeting times, information and registration.

Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts. a•P•art {of} performance series, every Thursday at 7:30pm here.

Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir. Tafelmusik at Home is a new online concert featuring solo and duo performances. Be sure to stay until the end for live Q&A sessions with featured musicians. These concerts are $5, $10, $20 Choose-What-You-Pay, allowing you to pay what you feel is the value of the concert. Join them for this new way to experience the beauty of Tafelmusik here.

Toronto Consort. Explorer: Discovering the World of Early Music. Explorer is a blog for the curious; a place of learning, sharing, and community. This all-new offering will present an assortment of curated content in a range of formats, like original short- or long-form articles, original video and audio recordings, and educational content on relevant topics relating to Early Music, history, and world music, as they relate our beloved repertoire. Visit here for further information.

NEW!! Toronto Operetta Theatre. An archival video of Toronto Operetta Theatre's production of Jacinto Guerrero's Los Gavilanes (The Sparrow Hawks) performed in April 2016 at the Jane Mallett Theatre, St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, Toronto.This zarzuela tells the story of Juan, who returns to his native village in Spain from Peru as a wealthy man, at last worthy of marriage to his childhood sweetheart, Adriana. Separated for over twenty years, Adriana is unforgiving. In his absence, Adriana had married and is now a widow with a daughter, Rosaura. Adriana’s mother Leontina proposes that Juan marry Rosaura scandalizing the village. Juan is hesitant to complicate the situation especially as Rosaura is known to be in love with a young villager called Gustavo. This production features Guillermo Silva-Marin and some of Canada's most amazing voices to dazzle your ears and eyes. Watch scenes here.

VOICEBOX|Opera in Concert. Archival Video Project: Fierabras by Franz Schubert. Schubert’s opera had its Canadian premiere in 2019. If you missed our full production, please take a look at our gift to you with this video of excerpts featuring an amazing cast under the masterful conducting of Kevin Mallon and the Aradia Ensemble. It is a rare opera at its highest degree of excellence in performance. In the midst of wars between the Frankish Christians and Spanish Moors of the late 700s, conflicts are brought to an end with the intercession of a younger generation, where love conquers all. See the video here.

WORKSHOPS

Toronto Early Music Players Organization (TEMPO). Online Workshop. Sep 13 from 1:30 to 3:00pm. We are very fortunate to have Alison Melville, a long-time friend of TEMPO and Toronto’s leading recorder player, for our first online workshop. She has become a leader in offering online courses on her own and as part of Amherst Early Music Online. Please visit the TEMPO website here for more information on how to participate online.

Toronto Early Music Players Organization (TEMPO). Online Workshop. Oct 4 from 1:30 to 3:00pm. Lawrence Lipnik will be leading our October event. Lawrence has performed with many acclaimed early music ensembles from ARTEK and Anonymous 4 to Piffaro and the Waverly Consort, and is a founding member of the viol consort Parthenia and vocal ensemble Lionheart. He teaches recorder and viol on Amherst Early Music Online. Please visit the TEMPO website here for more information on how to participate online.

To submit relevant listings click here.

NOTE: All times are Eastern Time unless otherwise noted.

HAPPENING THIS WEEK (SEP 4-10)

NEW!! Music Mondays. Diar. Sep 7 at 12:15pm. “Diar” is a Syrian Damask expression that indicates the open space or courtyard in the old traditional Damask house. “Diar” also indicates the band's homeland of Syria, their memories, childhood, friends, family, first love, happiness, sadness, and musical roots. Tarek Ghriri, flamenco guitar; Leen Hamo, vocals; and Nour Kaadan, percussion present songs from the traditional Arabic/Andalusian heritage, reproduced and infused with flamenco music; envisioned in different simple beats and rhythms from traditional Arabic music, making it new, upbeat and much more relatable to the non-Arabic listener. The stream and full program notes are available here.

NEW!! A Temple Sinai Program. Musical Mondays Hosted by David Eisner. Sept 7 at 2pm. Musical and artistic creativity have been integral parts of the Temple Sinai experience since the beginning. This series gives our members an opportunity to meet some of the talented artists from our Temple family who have contributed in the past and will join us for a new Musical Mondays tradition! A very special edition of Musical Mondays Plus, as we honour our composer-in-residence Ben Steinberg. We’ll hear interviews with Ben Steinberg Musical Legacy Award winners Rebecca Gitter and Igor Gefter, hear some of Ben’s music, and have a visit with Ben and Machi Steinberg (rebroadcast). For more information, visit us online here, by email at programs@templesinai.net or call the Temple Office at 416-487-4161.

COMING SOON

The Pierrot Lunaire. Lunaire Live II: Corn Moon. Sep 9 at 8pm. The Full Corn Moon is a unique occurrence in the calendar and one we're particularly thrilled about celebrating. Pianist Adam Sherkin performs music by Franz Liszt, Lowell Liebermann, Frederic Chopin and himself. Donations are welcomed. Please visit here for more information.

The Pierrot Lunaire. Lunaire Live III: The Harvest Moon. Oct 1 at 8pm. Pianist Adam Sherkin performs music by Chopin: Scherzo No.1 in b, Op. 20; Sersam: Jonatan Medusa (2014); Hannah Kendal: Processional (2018); Charlotte Bray: Bring Me All Your Dreams (2019); Adam Sherkin: Tagish Fires, Op. 21. $20 suggested donation. Please visit here for more information.

NEW!! Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra. SPOGreatMusic Podcast - Episode 1. Sep 18 at 12 noon. Featuring interviews with Ronald Royer (SPO), William Rowson (SSO), Derek Spooner (Scarborough Arts), and Tamar Ilana (FabCollab). Host: Dr. Daniel Mehdizadeh. Find updated information and themes on our website, www.spo.ca.

NEW!! Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra. SPOGreatMusic Podcast: Episode 2 - Plagues, Pandemics, and Musicians. Oct 2 at 12 noon. Featuring interviews with special guests. Host: Dr. Daniel Mehdizadeh. Find updated information and themes on our website, www.spo.ca.

NEW!! Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra. SPOGreatMusic Podcast: Episode 3 - Socially Distanced: Music for a Solo Instrument: J.S. Bach Plus. Oct 16 & 23 at 12 noon. Featuring interviews with special guests. Host: Dr. Daniel Mehdizadeh. Find updated information and themes on our website, www.spo.ca.

NEW!! Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra. SPOGreatMusic Podcast: Episode 4 - Beethoven: The Man and His Chamber Music - Part 1. Oct 30 & Nov 6 at 12 noon. Featuring interviews with special guests. Host: Dr. Daniel Mehdizadeh. Find updated information and themes on our website, www.spo.ca.

Tafelmusik. Mozart Together. Oct 1 at 8pm online. Following many months of isolation and remote music making, the musicians of Tafelmusik gather for an emotional return to the concert stage. Filmed at Koerner Hall, TELUS Centre, this opening program of the reimagined 2020/21 season is devoted to chamber music originally intended to be played in private homes and salon gatherings among friends and family. Scored for two to eight instruments, these intimate works — almost all of them new to our musicians — capture the immediacy and connection we’ve all been craving. On display will be a more playful side of titans like Mozart, Beethoven, and Boccherini, including a movement from Mozart’s famous Sinfonia concertante in E-flat Major in an unusual arrangement for six string instruments, along with music by Michael Haydn, Družeckŷ, Sperger, and Spohr — classical composers eclipsed by these giants. An unforgettable homecoming. For more information, visit here.

The Upper Canada Choristers. Inti Ukana: A Latin American Tapestry. A live-streamed performance on Oct 2 at 7:30pm. With conductor Laurie Evan Fraser, pianist Hye Won Cecilia Lee, Cantemos Latin ensemble, M.C. Laura Fernandez; guest artists including Bernardo Padron. Visit here or call 416-256-0510 or email info@uppercanadachoristers.org.

ONGOING

Arts@Home. A vibrant hub connecting Torontonians to arts and culture. Designed to strengthen personal and societal resilience through the arts. Visit here to learn more about this exciting collaborative initiative.

Kevin Barrett. Live from Lockdown. Every Friday Kevin Barrett does a live-streamed set of solo guitar tunes, coming directly from lockdown in his studio in Kensington Market, Toronto. The show is timed so that West Coast residents can sit in for a late lunch (1pm PDT), people in Toronto/Ottawa/NYC can join in the late afternoon (4pm EDT) and friends in Edinburgh and throughout the UK can kick off their Friday night (9pm BST/UTC+1; later in Europe ...). Watch for special requests and dedications, birthday shout-outs, and a few opinions. But, mostly, lots of music! Tune in to Kevin's Facebook page on Friday here If you can't join live, the video will be available afterwards on Kevin's page. And each week's episode is archived on his YouTube channel here.

Canadian Brass: welcomes friends around their virtual fireplace for learning and laughs. All events take place here.

Classical Jukebox Founded as a response to the days of COVID-19 social separation, this site is designed to provide you the ability to sing and perform your favorite classical pieces from the comfort of your own home, with accompaniments by organ and piano accompanist, Matthew Larkin. In addition, Classical Jukebox offers another service - assisting with the creation of Virtual Choirs and virtual choir videos for those missing that collaborative and artistic outlet in their lives. Further information can be found here.

Collingwood Summer Music Festival. Virtual Concerts. Artistic Director Daniel Vnukowski is running a series of FREE virtual concerts throughout the summer months. Visit here for information about the virtual concerts.

NEW!! Esprit Orchestra. Soundbites. The latest Soundbite in our series is an excerpt from the World Premiere performance of Quinn Jacobs' Music About Music. This concert is conducted by Eugene Astapov and was performed by Esprit Orchestra in Trinity St. Paul's Centre on April 5, 2019. Listen here. Enjoy a conversation with Quinn Jacobs and Alex Pauk here.

Harbourfront Centre. Summer Music in the Garden at Home. Every Sunday at 4pm and Thursday at 7pm. Just as our gardens come to life again, so too does the music of Toronto. Harbourfront Centre’s Summer Music in the Garden series is virtual this year, bringing the sounds of the Toronto Music Garden right to your home. Featuring artists from Ontario, Quebec and around the world. Music by Bach, Ravel, Borodin and Telemann are accompanied by meditative raags and ancient lute techniques. Sign up for reminders at harbourfront.live to remain up to date on concerts and even a few surprises. For information 905-973-4000 or visit here.

Kingston Symphony. Finale of Beethoven’s Third Symphony (Eroica). Forty members of the orchestra perform the finale of the Eroica, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 while in isolation in their homes. To view the virtual performance, please click here. For more information on the Kingston Symphony, please visit here.

Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony. Friday Night with the KWS. Online broadcasts of archival concerts every Friday at 8pm. Select broadcasts will feature video and others will be audio-only. Content for each concert will be announced each week via KWS social media platforms. Visit here and here.

Koerner Hall. Concerts from Home.There are more than 25 classical, jazz, and roots music concerts currently available online. Check out the available items here.

Danny Michel. Live From Lockdown Sundays. A weekly live, interactive online concert on Sundays at 3pm, on ZOOM from his studio in the woods. Unlike Facebook live, fans can see each other, interact, chat, play along & be a part of the show. Buy a ticket for $7.00, get a private link in your email and join the party on Zoom (free download available) here.

Opera Revue. Isolation Series. Comic operatic duo Danie Friesen and Claire Harris film and record operatic parodies as well as legit opera and art song for a weekly release. Join us every Saturday. For info visit here.

Orchestre Métropolitain. Live stream of Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 1-8. On the websites of Orchestre Métropolitain and Bourgie Hall over the course of the summer of 2020. Visit here and here.

Ottawa Chamberfest. Chamber Chats: At Home / Chez vous. Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2pm. Hosted by celebrated broadcaster/writer Eric Friesen. Interactive episodes combine chat with pre-recorded and live performances and feature guest artists and lecturers from all over the world. For information: 613-234-8008. Visit the website here.

Recollectiv: Currently holding on-line meetings. A unique musical group made up of people affected by memory challenges caused by illness (such as dementia) or brain injury (stroke, PTSD, etc.) and their care partners. Volunteers of all ages also form part of the band, making this a positive intergenerational experience for all. Participation is free with pre-registration. Contact info@recollectiv.ca for meeting times, information and registration.

Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts. a•P•art {of} performance series, every Thursday at 7:30pm here.

Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir. Tafelmusik at Home is a new online concert featuring solo and duo performances. Be sure to stay until the end for live Q&A sessions with featured musicians. These concerts are $5, $10, $20 Choose-What-You-Pay, allowing you to pay what you feel is the value of the concert. Join them for this new way to experience the beauty of Tafelmusik here.

Toronto Consort. Explorer: Discovering the World of Early Music. Explorer is a blog for the curious; a place of learning, sharing, and community. This all-new offering will present an assortment of curated content in a range of formats, like original short- or long-form articles, original video and audio recordings, and educational content on relevant topics relating to Early Music, history, and world music, as they relate our beloved repertoire. Visit here for further information.

Toronto Operetta Theatre. An archival video of Toronto Operetta Theatre's production of Jacques Offenbach's The Beautiful Helen (La belle Hélène) performed from April 27 to 29, 2018, Jane Mallett Theatre, St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, Toronto. Enjoy the video here.

VOICEBOX|Opera in Concert. Archival Video Project: Fierabras by Franz Schubert. Schubert’s opera had its Canadian premiere in 2019. If you missed our full production, please take a look at our gift to you with this video of excerpts featuring an amazing cast under the masterful conducting of Kevin Mallon and the Aradia Ensemble. It is a rare opera at its highest degree of excellence in performance. In the midst of wars between the Frankish Christians and Spanish Moors of the late 700s, conflicts are brought to an end with the intercession of a younger generation, where love conquers all. See the video here.

WORKSHOPS

Toronto Early Music Players Organization (TEMPO). Online Workshop. Sep 13 from 1:30 to 3:00pm. We are very fortunate to have Alison Melville, a long-time friend of TEMPO and Toronto’s leading recorder player, for our first online workshop. She has become a leader in offering online courses on her own and as part of Amherst Early Music Online. Please visit the TEMPO website here for more information on how to participate online.

Toronto Early Music Players Organization (TEMPO). Online Workshop. Oct 4 from 1:30 to 3:00pm. Lawrence Lipnik will be leading our October event. Lawrence has performed with many acclaimed early music ensembles from ARTEK and Anonymous 4 to Piffaro and the Waverly Consort, and is a founding member of the viol consort Parthenia and vocal ensemble Lionheart. He teaches recorder and viol on Amherst Early Music Online. Please visit the TEMPO website here for more information on how to participate online.

Special Offer!

FREE CLASSIFIEDS

ALL CLASSIFIED ADS offering immediate paid employment opportunities for musicians and other arts workers will be free to the end of December 2020, in print and online.

WholeNote classifieds are online all the time, and can be published at any time! Inquiries by email only to classad@thewholenote.com

WholeNote CLASSIFIEDS can help you recruit new members for your ensemble, find a new music director or accompanist; sell your banjo, offer online music lessons! Starting at only $24/issue. INQUIRE BY SEPT 26 for the OCT edition. classad@thewholenote.com

AUDITIONS & EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

AUDITIONING TENORS AND SOPRANOS  for Mostly Madrigals: 1-on-a-part a cappella ensembles. 1.5-hr zoomed workshops every 2-weeks. Coaching fee: $20/workshop. Contact Sheila. Call/text 416-574-5250.

AVAILABLE  POSITIONS with the KINDRED SPIRITS ORCHESTRA: All instruments. Visit KSOchestra.ca or email GM@KSOrchestra.ca

BUY & SELL

CLASSICAL RECORD AND CD COLLECTIONS WANTED. Minimum 350 units. Call, text or e-mail Aaron 416-471-8169 or A@A31.CA 

SOHMER & CO 2006 BLACK GRAND PIANO $7,500.00 mint cond. Mod. 77T ser. KJNL60080 info upon request Kira Keeping 7052419807 kirakeeping@gmail.com

TRUMPET, Olds Ambassador; EUPHONIUM Besson silver, compensating. TROMBONE, classic Silver King 2B in hard case. FLUTE. Phone 416-964-3642. 

WHAT’S IN YOUR CLOSET? Does your old guitar gently weep?  Sell that nice old accordion / clarinet / drum kit and find it a new owner!  WholeNote classified ads start at just $24.00. INQUIRE BY SEPTEMBER 26 for the OCTOBER  edition. classad@thewholenote.com

INSTRUCTION

ONLINE CELLO LESSONS with Dr. Dobrochna Zubek http://dobrochnazubek.com

GOT A MASK? WANT PIANO LESSONS? I’ll supply the hydrogen peroxide, you bring the desire to learn music. We’ll stay six feet apart. Or two metres if metric is safer. Or we’ll Zoom if you’re really nervous. Doug Ford says it’s all ok - I think. Peter Kristian Mose, 416/923-3060. MosePianoForAll.com.

WAITING FOR CHOIR TO START AGAIN? Treat yourself to private sight-singing lessons on ZOOM. Call or text Sheila at 416-574-5250.

SERVICES

ACCOUNTING AND INCOME TAX SERVICE for small business and individuals, to save you time and money, customized to meet your needs. Norm Pulker, B. Math. CMA. 905-251-0309 or 905-830-2985.

DOG BOARDING (near Woodbine subway). Heading away for a while and can’t bring your favourite canine companion? I take just one dog at a time and give it a very special vacation. Your dog will pull you to my door on repeat visits! Call or text Sheila at 416-574-5250 or lilackayak@gmail.com.

RESTORE PRECIOUS MEMORIES lost on old records, tapes, photos etc.? Recitals, gigs, auditions, air checks, family stuff. on 78’s, cassettes, reels, 35mm  slides etc?. ArtsMediaProjects will lovingly restore them to CD’s or DVD’s. Call George @ 416-910-1091.

VENUES AVAILABLE / WANTED

ARE YOU PLANNING A CONCERT OR RECITAL? Looking for a venue? Consider Bloor Street United Church. Phone: 416-924-7439 x22. Email: tina@bloorstreetunited.org

To submit relevant listings click here.

NOTE: All times are Eastern Time unless otherwise noted.

THIS WEEK (AUG 28-SEP 3)

Canadian Children's Opera Company’s (CCOC). The Monkiest King. Aug 29 at 3:00pm. This English-Mandarin opera will have its first public broadcast in the final hour (3-4pm approx.) of CBC’s Saturday Afternoon at The Opera.

NEW!! Music Mondays. Virtual Lunchtime Concert: Rosebud Quartet. Aug 31 at 12:15pm.  Aaron Schwebel, violin; Sheila Jaffee, viola; Keith Hamm, viola; Leanne Rutt, celllo. Haydn: String Quartet Op. 76, No. 5 in D; Beethoven: String Quartet in E-flat, Op. 74 “Harp”. The stream and full program notes are available here.

A Temple Sinai Program. Musical Mondays Hosted by David Eisner. Mondays at 2.00 pm.
Monday, August 31, for Ellen Dubin — Part 2
Musical and artistic creativity have been integral parts of the Temple Sinai experience since the beginning. This series gives our members an opportunity to meet some of the talented artists from our Temple family who have contributed in the past and will join us for a new Musical Mondays tradition! Gemini Award-nominated actress and Temple member Ellen Dubin will be acting as our host this year for Temple Sinai’s online High Holidays, surely the most unusual in our people’s long history. Musical Mondays Plus is proud to present a special two-part opportunity to meet and get to know Ellen Dubin in an interview with David Eisner. This is one you will not want to miss! For more information, visit us online here, by email at programs@templesinai.net or call the Temple Office at 416-487-4161.

COMING SOON

The Pierrot Lunaire. Lunaire Live II: Corn Moon. Sep 9 at 8pm. The Full Corn Moon is a unique occurrence in the calendar and one we're particularly thrilled about celebrating. Pianist Adam Sherkin performs music by Franz Liszt, Lowell Liebermann, Frederic Chopin and himself. Donations are welcomed. Please visit here for more information.

NEW!! The Pierrot Lunaire. Lunaire Live III: The Harvest Moon. Oct 1 at 8pm. Pianist Adam Sherkin performs music by Chopin: Scherzo No.1 in b, Op. 20; Sersam: Jonatan Medusa (2014); Hannah Kendal: Processional (2018); Charlotte Bray: Bring Me All Your Dreams (2019); Adam Sherkin: Tagish Fires, Op. 21. $20 suggested donation. Please visit here for more information.

Tafelmusik. Mozart Together. Oct 1 at 8pm online. Following many months of isolation and remote music making, the musicians of Tafelmusik gather for an emotional return to the concert stage. Filmed at Koerner Hall, TELUS Centre, this opening program of the reimagined 2020/21 season is devoted to chamber music originally intended to be played in private homes and salon gatherings among friends and family. Scored for two to eight instruments, these intimate works — almost all of them new to our musicians — capture the immediacy and connection we’ve all been craving. On display will be a more playful side of titans like Mozart, Beethoven, and Boccherini, including a movement from Mozart’s famous Sinfonia concertante in E-flat Major in an unusual arrangement for six string instruments, along with music by Michael Haydn, Družeckŷ, Sperger, and Spohr — classical composers eclipsed by these giants. An unforgettable homecoming. For more information, visit here.

The Upper Canada Choristers. Inti Ukana: A Latin American Tapestry. A live-streamed performance on Oct 2 at 7:30pm. With conductor Laurie Evan Fraser, pianist Hye Won Cecilia Lee, Cantemos Latin ensemble, M.C. Laura Fernandez; guest artists including Bernardo Padron. Visit here or call 416-256-0510 or email info@uppercanadachoristers.org.

ONGOING

Arts@Home. A vibrant hub connecting Torontonians to arts and culture. Designed to strengthen personal and societal resilience through the arts. Visit here to learn more about this exciting collaborative initiative.

Kevin Barrett. Live from Lockdown. Every Friday Kevin Barrett does a live-streamed set of solo guitar tunes, coming directly from lockdown in his studio in Kensington Market, Toronto. The show is timed so that West Coast residents can sit in for a late lunch (1pm PDT), people in Toronto/Ottawa/NYC can join in the late afternoon (4pm EDT) and friends in Edinburgh and throughout the UK can kick off their Friday night (9pm BST/UTC+1; later in Europe ...). Watch for special requests and dedications, birthday shout-outs, and a few opinions. But, mostly, lots of music! Tune in to Kevin's Facebook page on Friday here If you can't join live, the video will be available afterwards on Kevin's page. And each week's episode is archived on his YouTube channel here.

Canadian Brass: welcomes friends around their virtual fireplace for learning and laughs. All events take place here.

Classical Jukebox Founded as a response to the days of COVID-19 social separation, this site is designed to provide you the ability to sing and perform your favorite classical pieces from the comfort of your own home, with accompaniments by organ and piano accompanist, Matthew Larkin. In addition, Classical Jukebox offers another service - assisting with the creation of Virtual Choirs and virtual choir videos for those missing that collaborative and artistic outlet in their lives. Further information can be found here.

Collingwood Summer Music Festival. Virtual Concerts. Artistic Director Daniel Vnukowski is running a series of FREE virtual concerts throughout the summer months. Visit here for information about the virtual concerts.

Harbourfront Centre. Summer Music in the Garden at Home. Every Sunday at 4pm and Thursday at 7pm. Just as our gardens come to life again, so too does the music of Toronto. Harbourfront Centre’s Summer Music in the Garden series is virtual this year, bringing the sounds of the Toronto Music Garden right to your home. Featuring artists from Ontario, Quebec and around the world. Music by Bach, Ravel, Borodin and Telemann are accompanied by meditative raags and ancient lute techniques. Sign up for reminders at harbourfront.live to remain up to date on concerts and even a few surprises. For information 905-973-4000 or visit here.

Kingston Symphony. Finale of Beethoven’s Third Symphony (Eroica). Forty members of the orchestra perform the finale of the Eroica, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 while in isolation in their homes. To view the virtual performance, please click here. For more information on the Kingston Symphony, please visit here.

Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony. Friday Night with the KWS. Online broadcasts of archival concerts every Friday at 8pm. Select broadcasts will feature video and others will be audio-only. Content for each concert will be announced each week via KWS social media platforms. Visit here and here.

Koerner Hall. Concerts from Home.There are more than 25 classical, jazz, and roots music concerts currently available online. Check out the available items here.

Danny Michel. Live From Lockdown Sundays. A weekly live, interactive online concert on Sundays at 3pm, on ZOOM from his studio in the woods. Unlike Facebook live, fans can see each other, interact, chat, play along & be a part of the show. Buy a ticket for $7.00, get a private link in your email and join the party on Zoom (free download available) here.

Opera Revue. Isolation Series. Comic operatic duo Danie Friesen and Claire Harris film and record operatic parodies as well as legit opera and art song for a weekly release. Join us every Saturday. For info visit here.

Orchestre Métropolitain. Live stream of Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 1-8. On the websites of Orchestre Métropolitain and Bourgie Hall over the course of the summer of 2020. Visit here and here.

Ottawa Chamberfest. Chamber Chats: At Home / Chez vous. Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2pm. Hosted by celebrated broadcaster/writer Eric Friesen. Interactive episodes combine chat with pre-recorded and live performances and feature guest artists and lecturers from all over the world. For information: 613-234-8008. Visit the website here.

Recollectiv: Currently holding on-line meetings. A unique musical group made up of people affected by memory challenges caused by illness (such as dementia) or brain injury (stroke, PTSD, etc.) and their care partners. Volunteers of all ages also form part of the band, making this a positive intergenerational experience for all. Participation is free with pre-registration. Contact info@recollectiv.ca for meeting times, information and registration.

Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts. a•P•art {of} performance series, every Thursday at 7:30pm here.

Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir. Tafelmusik at Home is a new online concert featuring solo and duo performances. Be sure to stay until the end for live Q&A sessions with featured musicians. These concerts are $5, $10, $20 Choose-What-You-Pay, allowing you to pay what you feel is the value of the concert. Join them for this new way to experience the beauty of Tafelmusik here.

Toronto Botanical Gardens. Music in the Garden Series. The first concert will launch on Thursday, July 16 at 7 p.m. with a new performance released every Thursday at 7 p.m. until Labour Day. All concerts can be viewed via the Toronto Botanical Garden's website here. More concerts to be released later this summer. Virtual performances and further information can be found here.

Toronto Consort. Explorer: Discovering the World of Early Music. Explorer is a blog for the curious; a place of learning, sharing, and community. This all-new offering will present an assortment of curated content in a range of formats, like original short- or long-form articles, original video and audio recordings, and educational content on relevant topics relating to Early Music, history, and world music, as they relate our beloved repertoire. Visit here for further information.

Toronto Operetta Theatre. An archival video of Toronto Operetta Theatre's production of Jacques Offenbach's The Beautiful Helen (La belle Hélène) performed from April 27 to 29, 2018, Jane Mallett Theatre, St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, Toronto. Enjoy the video here.

VOICEBOX|Opera in Concert. Archival Video Project: Fierabras by Franz Schubert. Schubert’s opera had its Canadian premiere in 2019. If you missed our full production, please take a look at our gift to you with this video of excerpts featuring an amazing cast under the masterful conducting of Kevin Mallon and the Aradia Ensemble. It is a rare opera at its highest degree of excellence in performance. In the midst of wars between the Frankish Christians and Spanish Moors of the late 700s, conflicts are brought to an end with the intercession of a younger generation, where love conquers all. See the video here.

WORKSHOPS

Toronto Early Music Players Organization (TEMPO). Online Workshop. Sep 13 from 1:30 to 3:00pm. We are very fortunate to have Alison Melville, a long-time friend of TEMPO and Toronto’s leading recorder player, for our first online workshop. She has become a leader in offering online courses on her own and as part of Amherst Early Music Online. Please visit the TEMPO website here for more information on how to participate online.

Toronto Early Music Players Organization (TEMPO). Online Workshop. Oct 4 from 1:30 to 3:00pm. Lawrence Lipnik will be leading our October event. Lawrence has performed with many acclaimed early music ensembles from ARTEK and Anonymous 4 to Piffaro and the Waverly Consort, and is a founding member of the viol consort Parthenia and vocal ensemble Lionheart. He teaches recorder and viol on Amherst Early Music Online. Please visit the TEMPO website here for more information on how to participate online.

NOTE: All times are Eastern Time unless otherwise noted.

THIS WEEK (AUG 21-27)

NEW!! Canadian Children's Opera Company’s (CCOC). The Monkiest King. Aug 29 at 3:00pm. This English-Mandarin opera will have its first public broadcast in the final hour (3-4pm approx.) of CBC’s Saturday Afternoon at The Opera.

NEW!! Music Mondays. Virtual Lunchtime Concert. Aug 24 at 12:15pm.  Canadian pianist Sheng Cai will perform a full program of major piano solo works by Brahms, Prokofiev, Debussy and Beethoven. He remarks that he chose Prokofiev's Piano Sonata No. 7 "Stalingrad" to reflect the struggle with human destiny (and the current battle with COVID) and Beethoven's "Appassionata" to mark Beethoven's 250th birthday! The stream and full program notes are available here.

NEW!! Music on Main. Festivals for Compassion: Mark Takeshi McGregor. Aug 25. Music festivals throughout Europe have been expressing their solidarity by presenting a new, solo composition “Thin Air” by the Greek-Dutch composer Calliope Tsoupaki. Calliope wrote the piece earlier this year and has gifted it to ensembles, artists, and presenters to make their own in these uniquely challenging times for the world. Each presenter selects their own artist and instrument to represent the piece. We’re thrilled to announce Music on Main has had the opportunity to bring this festival to our Vancouver ‘home’ and commission Vancouver-based flautist, Mark Takeshi McGregor. The piece will be unveiled on Main’s social media platforms. For information, visit here.

Daniel Vnukowski, Piano. On The World's Longest Piano Fazioli F308. Aug 22 at 3pm. Inspired by Yo-Yo-Ma’s Songs of Comfort project, this special house concert series brings together comforting piano music each Saturday at 12pm Pacific/3pm Eastern. Each concert uses high-end, professional, audio-visual gear in order to capture the nuances and dynamics of the music. Featuring classical masterworks, lectures, special guests and the occasional improvisation. Visit here.

NEW!! Skinnamarink with Sharon and Randi. A Live, Interactive, Virtual Concert. Aug 27 at 7:00 p.m. Fans of all ages are invited to join Sharon and Randi for a very special LIVE virtual show, SKINNAMARINK with Sharon and Randi, with special guest ... Bram! Legendary musicians Sharon & Bram brought happiness to four generations of children and their grown-ups. Sharon Hampson and her daughter Randi Hampson have coaxed Bram Morrison out of retirement for this up-close-and-personal sing-along gathering. At this first-ever event, viewers will be able to see, interact with, and sing along with each other and the performers. Join the stream here.

NEW!! A Temple Sinai Program. Musical Mondays Hosted by David Eisner. Mondays at 2.00 pm.
Monday, August 24, for Ellen Dubin — Part 1
Monday, August 31, for Ellen Dubin — Part 2
Musical and artistic creativity have been integral parts of the Temple Sinai experience since the beginning. This series gives our members an opportunity to meet some of the talented artists from our Temple family who have contributed in the past and will join us for a new Musical Mondays tradition! Gemini Award-nominated actress and Temple member Ellen Dubin will be acting as our host this year for Temple Sinai’s online High Holidays, surely the most unusual in our people’s long history. Musical Mondays Plus is proud to present a special two-part opportunity to meet and get to know Ellen Dubin in an interview with David Eisner. This is one you will not want to miss! For more information, visit us online here, by email at programs@templesinai.net or call the Temple Office at 416-487-4161.

COMING SOON

NEW!! The Pierrot Lunaire. Lunaire Live: Corn Moon. Sep 9 at 8pm. The Full Corn Moon is a unique occurrence in the calendar and one we're particularly thrilled about celebrating. Pianist Adam Sherkin performs music by Franz Liszt, Lowell Liebermann, Frederic Chopin and himself. Donations are welcomed. Please visit here for more information.

NEW!! Tafelmusik. Mozart Together. Oct 1 at 8pm online. Following many months of isolation and remote music making, the musicians of Tafelmusik gather for an emotional return to the concert stage. Filmed at Koerner Hall, TELUS Centre, this opening program of the reimagined 2020/21 season is devoted to chamber music originally intended to be played in private homes and salon gatherings among friends and family. Scored for two to eight instruments, these intimate works — almost all of them new to our musicians — capture the immediacy and connection we’ve all been craving. On display will be a more playful side of titans like Mozart, Beethoven, and Boccherini, including a movement from Mozart’s famous Sinfonia concertante in E-flat Major in an unusual arrangement for six string instruments, along with music by Michael Haydn, Družeckŷ, Sperger, and Spohr — classical composers eclipsed by these giants. An unforgettable homecoming. For more information, visit here.

TD Toronto Jazz Festival. Summer Concert Series: A Live-to-Air Weekly Series on JAZZ.FM91. Running from July 3 to August 28, each weekly performance will air live on JAZZ.FM91, every Friday from 5 pm to 6 pm. From now until the spring of next year, the Festival will be offering a variety of ways to support musicians, and for the public to experience live music, through efforts such as the Summer Concert Series, because we know there is nothing better than live music.

The lineup for the TD Toronto Jazz Festival Summer Concert Series: Aug 21: Kirk MacDonald Generations Quartet featuring Virginia MacDonald. Aug 28: Donnybrook

Toronto Concert Orchestra. Symphony in Your Garden. All concerts at 7:30pm. Visit here for more information. Aug 25: Grand Finale: Tribute to Kerry.

NEW!! The Upper Canada Choristers. Inti Ukana: A Latin American Tapestry. A live-streamed performance on Oct 2 at 7:30pm. With conductor Laurie Evan Fraser, pianist Hye Won Cecilia Lee, Cantemos Latin ensemble, M.C. Laura Fernandez; guest artists including Bernardo Padron. Visit here or call 416-256-0510 or email info@uppercanadachoristers.org.

ONGOING

Arts@Home. A vibrant hub connecting Torontonians to arts and culture. Designed to strengthen personal and societal resilience through the arts. Visit here to learn more about this exciting collaborative initiative.

Kevin Barrett. Live from Lockdown. Every Friday Kevin Barrett does a live-streamed set of solo guitar tunes, coming directly from lockdown in his studio in Kensington Market, Toronto. The show is timed so that West Coast residents can sit in for a late lunch (1pm PDT), people in Toronto/Ottawa/NYC can join in the late afternoon (4pm EDT) and friends in Edinburgh and throughout the UK can kick off their Friday night (9pm BST/UTC+1; later in Europe ...). Watch for special requests and dedications, birthday shout-outs, and a few opinions. But, mostly, lots of music! Tune in to Kevin's Facebook page on Friday here If you can't join live, the video will be available afterwards on Kevin's page. And each week's episode is archived on his YouTube channel here.

Canadian Brass: welcomes friends around their virtual fireplace for learning and laughs. All events take place here.

Classical Jukebox Founded as a response to the days of COVID-19 social separation, this site is designed to provide you the ability to sing and perform your favorite classical pieces from the comfort of your own home, with accompaniments by organ and piano accompanist, Matthew Larkin. In addition, Classical Jukebox offers another service - assisting with the creation of Virtual Choirs and virtual choir videos for those missing that collaborative and artistic outlet in their lives. Further information can be found here.

Collingwood Summer Music Festival. Virtual Concerts. Artistic Director Daniel Vnukowski is running a series of FREE virtual concerts throughout the summer months. Visit here for information about the virtual concerts.

Harbourfront Centre. Summer Music in the Garden at Home. Every Sunday at 4pm and Thursday at 7pm. Just as our gardens come to life again, so too does the music of Toronto. Harbourfront Centre’s Summer Music in the Garden series is virtual this year, bringing the sounds of the Toronto Music Garden right to your home. Featuring artists from Ontario, Quebec and around the world. Music by Bach, Ravel, Borodin and Telemann are accompanied by meditative raags and ancient lute techniques. Sign up for reminders at harbourfront.live to remain up to date on concerts and even a few surprises. For information 905-973-4000 or visit here.

Kingston Symphony. Finale of Beethoven’s Third Symphony (Eroica). Forty members of the orchestra perform the finale of the Eroica, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 while in isolation in their homes. To view the virtual performance, please click here. For more information on the Kingston Symphony, please visit here.

Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony. Friday Night with the KWS. Online broadcasts of archival concerts every Friday at 8pm. Select broadcasts will feature video and others will be audio-only. Content for each concert will be announced each week via KWS social media platforms. Visit here and here.

Koerner Hall. Concerts from Home.There are more than 25 classical, jazz, and roots music concerts currently available online. Check out the available items here.

Danny Michel. Live From Lockdown Sundays. A weekly live, interactive online concert on Sundays at 3pm, on ZOOM from his studio in the woods. Unlike Facebook live, fans can see each other, interact, chat, play along & be a part of the show. Buy a ticket for $7.00, get a private link in your email and join the party on Zoom (free download available) here.

Opera Revue. Isolation Series. Comic operatic duo Danie Friesen and Claire Harris film and record operatic parodies as well as legit opera and art song for a weekly release. Join us every Saturday. For info visit here.

Orchestre Métropolitain. Live stream of Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 1-8. On the websites of Orchestre Métropolitain and Bourgie Hall over the course of the summer of 2020. Visit here and here.

Ottawa Chamberfest. Chamber Chats: At Home / Chez vous. Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2pm. Hosted by celebrated broadcaster/writer Eric Friesen. Interactive episodes combine chat with pre-recorded and live performances and feature guest artists and lecturers from all over the world. For information: 613-234-8008. Visit the website here.

Recollectiv: Currently holding on-line meetings. A unique musical group made up of people affected by memory challenges caused by illness (such as dementia) or brain injury (stroke, PTSD, etc.) and their care partners. Volunteers of all ages also form part of the band, making this a positive intergenerational experience for all. Participation is free with pre-registration. Contact info@recollectiv.ca for meeting times, information and registration.

Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts. a•P•art {of} performance series, every Thursday at 7:30pm here.

Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir. Tafelmusik at Home is a new online concert featuring solo and duo performances. Be sure to stay until the end for live Q&A sessions with featured musicians. These concerts are $5, $10, $20 Choose-What-You-Pay, allowing you to pay what you feel is the value of the concert. Join them for this new way to experience the beauty of Tafelmusik here.

Toronto Botanical Gardens. Music in the Garden Series. The first concert will launch on Thursday, July 16 at 7 p.m. with a new performance released every Thursday at 7 p.m. until Labour Day. All concerts can be viewed via the Toronto Botanical Garden's website here. More concerts to be released later this summer. Virtual performances and further information can be found here.

Toronto Consort. Explorer: Discovering the World of Early Music. Explorer is a blog for the curious; a place of learning, sharing, and community. This all-new offering will present an assortment of curated content in a range of formats, like original short- or long-form articles, original video and audio recordings, and educational content on relevant topics relating to Early Music, history, and world music, as they relate our beloved repertoire. Visit here for further information.

NEW!! Toronto Operetta Theatre. An archival video of Toronto Operetta Theatre's production of Jacques Offenbach's The Beautiful Helen (La belle Hélène) performed from April 27 to 29, 2018, Jane Mallett Theatre, St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, Toronto. Enjoy the video here.

NEW!! VOICEBOX|Opera in Concert. Archival Video Project: Fierabras by Franz Schubert. Schubert’s opera had its Canadian premiere in 2019. If you missed our full production, please take a look at our gift to you with this video of excerpts featuring an amazing cast under the masterful conducting of Kevin Mallon and the Aradia Ensemble. It is a rare opera at its highest degree of excellence in performance. In the midst of wars between the Frankish Christians and Spanish Moors of the late 700s, conflicts are brought to an end with the intercession of a younger generation, where love conquers all. See the video here.

WORKSHOPS

NEW!! Toronto Early Music Players Organization (TEMPO). Online Workshop. Sep 13 from 1:30 to 3:00pm. We are very fortunate to have Alison Melville, a long-time friend of TEMPO and Toronto’s leading recorder player, for our first online workshop. She has become a leader in offering online courses on her own and as part of Amherst Early Music Online. Please visit the TEMPO website here for more information on how to participate online.

NEW!! Toronto Early Music Players Organization (TEMPO). Online Workshop. Oct 4 from 1:30 to 3:00pm. Lawrence Lipnik will be leading our October event. Lawrence has performed with many acclaimed early music ensembles from ARTEK and Anonymous 4 to Piffaro and the Waverly Consort, and is a founding member of the viol consort Parthenia and vocal ensemble Lionheart. He teaches recorder and viol on Amherst Early Music Online. Please visit the TEMPO website here for more information on how to participate online.